Garfunkel Wild P.C.

Full-Service, One Focus: Health Care.

Garfunkel Wild was founded over 40 years ago with a single purpose in mind—to attend to the specific business and legal needs of its clients in the health care industry. Our primary focus has always been to help our clients navigate the complex regulatory and business challenges they face on a daily basis. We are built to handle issues with a health care component, anywhere in the country, and integrate closely with clients to provide pragmatic cost-effective solutions.

We are one of the largest law firms specializing exclusively in health care in the country.

Garfunkel Wild has provided health care, transactional, regulatory, and litigation advice to more than 100 hospitals and health care systems, 500 long-term care providers, 4,000 physicians, 50 ambulatory surgical centers, and 40+ Federally Qualified Health Centers, as well as telehealth providers, urgent care centers, foundations, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, laboratories, home care agencies, and emerging companies.

Main Areas of Practice

Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions 

• Garfunkel Wild takes great care in learning about its clients' businesses. Our approach enables us to focus on our clients' goals and objectives while providing sound legal and practical business advice.

Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group has represented key constituents in many of the healthcare sector’s largest and most complex reorganizations, including the Debtor representation of multiple hospital systems as well as one of the largest not-for-profit social services agency to ever navigate the chapter 11 process.

Employment and Workforce Management 

• Garfunkel Wild's Employment and Workforce Management Practice Group provides legal advice and litigation defense services to a wide range of business entities, such as healthcare facilities, retail establishments, restaurants, charitable organizations and universities, as well as individual healthcare practitioners, business owners, and entrepreneurs.

Finance and Banking 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Finance and Banking Practice Group represents borrowers, including, but not limited to, hospitals, skilled nursing providers, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, and other medical providers, as well as commercial banks and other traditional and non-traditional funding entities, in a variety of complex and sophisticated financing transactions.

Health Technology and Cybersecurity 

• Garfunkel Wild's Health Technology and Cybersecurity Practice Group provides our clients with practical legal advice to navigate the many business, operational, and regulatory issues that arise in complex technology transactions.

HIPAA, Privacy, and Risk Management 

• Garfunkel Wild’s HIPAA, Privacy, and Risk Management Practice Group assists health care providers, insurance plans and their vendors (e.g., Independent Practice Associations, billing and software companies, Health Information Exchanges) in preparing for, and addressing, complex regulatory and operational issues.occur.

Hospital Law 

• With Garfunkel Wild's specialty in health care law, we provide advice, consultation, representation, and information on a broad range of issues affecting hospitals and health systems.

Intellectual Property and Trademark 

• Garfunkel Wild is uniquely positioned to assist health care providers to secure, license, enforce, and resolve disputes involving copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents.

Investigations, Audits, and Regulatory Compliance 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Investigations, Audits and Regulatory Compliance Practice Group is comprised of a team of experienced attorneys who focus on the unique regulatory and business concerns of the health care industry.

Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Group provides decades of experience, deep knowledge of the healthcare industry, and a winning track record in federal and state courts, agencies, and arbitration forums. Our team of seasoned litigators includes former federal and state prosecutors.

Physician Law 

• Garfunkel Wild's health care law attorneys have been assisting physicians and physician practice groups establish and grow their medical practices, as well as navigate them through the complex healthcare regulatory environment for over 40 years.

Real Estate and Construction 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Real Estate and Construction Practice Group provides advice to a wide range of clients on transactions of all sizes and levels of complexity.

Trusts, Estates and Private Client Services 

• Garfunkel Wild’s Trusts, Estates and Private Client Services Practice Group helps clients develop and implement effective estate planning strategies that preserve family wealth and legacies.

White Collar Criminal Defense 

• Garfunkel Wild’s White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group is comprised of attorneys with extraordinary levels of experience on the government side of these matters, who can aggressively defend our clients to the exclusion of all other concerns.

Additional Practice Areas

• Applied Behavioral Analysis and Medical and Education Services (BAMES)
• Clinical Trial/Research
• Education Law
• Finance and Banking
• Patient Rights and Discharge Planning
• Private Equity/Venture Capital
• Telemedicine

Offices

We have offices in the following locations, three of which are Chambers-ranked:

• Great Neck NY - 111 Great Neck Road, Suite 600, Great Neck, NY 11021
• Hackensack, NJ - 411 Hackensack Avenue, Suite 1006, Hackensack, NJ 07601
• Stamford, CT - 350 Bedford Street, Suite 406A, Stamford, CT 06901
• Albany, NY - 677 Broadway, 7th Floor, Albany, NY 12207
• Fort Lauderdale, FL - 401 E. Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 1423, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301