Angela Humphreys

Practice Areas

As Chair of the Healthcare Practice Group and Co-Chair of the Healthcare Private Equity Team, Angela Humphreys leads the firm’s national healthcare practice. Angela is a go-to lawyer for private equity firms on complex transactions in the healthcare industry. She began her career in public accounting and has more than 20 years of experience working exclusively in the healthcare M&A space. With both deep corporate and healthcare regulatory experience, Angela is highly skilled in developing innovative solutions to help clients achieve their business goals while navigating the complex healthcare regulatory, tax and employee benefits landscape. She has counseled on hundreds of transactions in the healthcare industry, including physician practice management platforms, ambulatory surgery centers, health plans, healthcare information technology companies, behavioral health, home health, hospice, clinical research organizations and hospitals and health systems, among others. She has been recognized nationally for her work in the healthcare private equity space, including by Mergers and Acquisitions Magazine as one of the Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A and by Law360 as Health Law MVP of the Year.

Career

Joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 2000.

Professional Memberships

Nashville Bar Association

Tennessee Bar Association

American Bar Association — Chair; Health Law and Life Sciences Committee Health Care M&A Committee, Vice Chair; Business Law Section Liaison to the Health Law Section

American Health Law Association (AHLA)

Nashville Health Care Council — Board of Directors (2017-2018); Leadership Health Care, Past Director

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society — Tennessee Chapter, Board of Directors

Lex Mundi — Health Care Industries Practice Group, Past Chair

Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation

Nashville Entrepreneur Center — Board Member

Personal

JD, University of Tennessee College of Law (1996) - summa cum laude, Order of the Coif

BS, University of Tennessee (1991) - summa cum laude

Awards