John W Dillane

Practice Areas

Health Care

Business Services

Educational, Religious & Tax-Exempt

Career

John is a go-to M&A lawyer for health care systems, individual hospitals, and large physician groups. His experience handling major transactions in the health care industry gives him a deep understanding of the dynamics involved in acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, tax-exempt bond issues, and other transactions.

On behalf of health care institutions, John acts as a lead negotiator and adviser in acquisitions and divestitures of hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, multi-specialty physician group practices, and managed care companies. He negotiates, establishes, and terminates joint ventures between hospitals and physicians and between non-profit and for-profit companies. Additionally, he advises on taxable and tax-exempt financing transactions, including tax-exempt bond issues, private debt placements, revolving credit facilities, commercial paper, and derivatives such as interest rate swaps. John is skilled in developing creative solutions despite changes in law that have diminished the scope of physician-hospital partnership arrangements.

Additionally, John has occasionally served on the adjunct faculty of Washington University in St. Louis as a legal writing instructor and an adjunct professor of law teaching federal taxation of partnerships.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

The Missouri Bar

Illinois State Bar Association

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis