Tim Franzen advises healthcare providers and businesses on corporate, transactional, and regulatory matters - business formation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt transactions, employment agreements, and federal and state regulatory compliance. His work sits at the intersection of the deal and the regulator.
Healthcare transactions look like ordinary corporate work until the regulator becomes a counterparty. Tim's practice spans both sides of that line: drafting the term sheet and the indemnity package, and structuring the transaction so the licensure, billing, and corporate-practice constraints survive the closing.
Before joining Health Law Alliance, Tim served as General Counsel of a publicly traded corporation. In that role, he oversaw financings, acquisitions, SEC filings, corporate governance, and litigation. The General Counsel seat at a public company forces a particular kind of discipline: every disclosure decision is one Securities and Exchange Commission filing away from being scrutinized, and every transaction has to be defensible to the board, to the auditors, and to the public markets. That discipline carries through to his current healthcare practice.
Tim previously practiced at a large international law firm in New York, where he handled corporate, transactional, and regulatory work for a wide range of clients. The combination of BigLaw transactional rigor and in-house General Counsel pragmatism is the foundation of his current healthcare practice: deals get structured the way a BigLaw partner would draft them, and they get pressure-tested the way an in-house General Counsel would defend them.
Tim's healthcare transactional practice covers mergers and acquisitions, private equity sponsor work, debt financings, joint ventures, and business formation across the healthcare delivery supply chain - independent pharmacies, physician practices, management services organizations (MSOs), specialty providers, and PE-backed platforms. He coordinates with the firm's regulatory bench when transactions trigger licensure, anti-kickback, Stark, or PBM-network considerations - which, in healthcare, is most of them.
Tim also advises healthcare clients on corporate governance, employment agreements, and federal and state regulatory compliance. The regulatory landscape for healthcare operators stretches across state pharmacy boards, federal DEA registration, HHS-OIG enforcement, state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) authority, and federal and state employment law. Tim handles the board-level documentation, internal policy, and contract structure that makes a healthcare business defensible across all of those forums.
At Health Law Alliance, Tim's transactional work integrates with the firm's defense-side practice. Healthcare operators rarely have the luxury of treating corporate work and regulatory work as separate practices: the same provider may close a transaction one quarter and respond to a payor audit the next. Tim is the firm's lead on the corporate and deal-structuring side; the firm's audit defense, DEA, healthcare fraud, and False Claims Act benches stand alongside that work when the regulator becomes part of the conversation.
Matters Tim personally leads - drawing on his General Counsel experience and BigLaw transactional foundation.
Consultations are confidential and protected by attorney-client privilege. Our team responds within one business day - often sooner when time is of the essence.
