Kerrin Slattery

Practice Areas

Partner Kerrin Slattery focuses on transaction practice on hospitals, health systems, investors and other healthcare industry participants throughout the country, Kerrin B. Slattery has earned a reputation for excellence. Her significant experience across a wide range of health industry transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and system restructurings involving nonprofit hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, post-acute providers, large medical groups and their investors, makes her a valuable partner to healthcare leaders working to implement strategy, drive innovation and operate in a highly-regulated and rapidly evolving landscape.

Kerrin manages large-scale transactions, frequently leading teams of experienced practitioners with unique health industry knowledge, such as antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, executive compensation, privacy and security, digital health, real estate, fraud and abuse, and white collar. In addition, Kerrin regularly clients on corporate and regulatory compliance matters, including state and federal regulations uniquely applicable to healthcare entities. She also works with numerous Catholic healthcare organization and non-Catholic organizations in the unique structuring and operation issues related to the intersection of corporate and Canon laws governing Catholic sponsored entities.

Kerrin is also a respected member of the leadership team at McDermott. She currently serves on the management committee and previously held the role of partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Chicago Health Industry Advisory Group. Kerrin was also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

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Professional Memberships

American Health Lawyers Association

Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, president (2013) and director (2009 to 2014)

American Heart Association, Executive Leadership Team Go Red for Women

American Heart Association, Board of Directors, Chicago

American Heart Association, Metro Chicago Board of Directors (2016)

Personal

Education:

Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, JD, 1996

Loyola University of Chicago Quinlan Graduate School of Business, MBA, 1996

University of San Diego, BSBA, 1991

Work Highlights

Served as counsel to public hospital in its sale to a large, nonprofit health system

Served as counsel to a large academic medical center in the Northeastern United States in connection with multiple strategic hospital and physician practice acquisitions

Served as counsel to a health system in the Northeastern United States in connection with its affiliation with a larger, regional health system, securing critical post-closing commitments from the new system

Served as transaction counsel to two large health systems through the creation of a super parent, resulting in a healthcare system with more than $3 billion in revenue, 13 hospitals, dozens of ancillary healthcare businesses and more than 20,000 employees