Matthew Shatzkes

Matthew Shatzkes

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Matt Shatzkes

Matthew Shatzkes

PARTNER
New York

Phone: 646.971.0685
Email: matthew@bochner.law

Matthew provides strategic counsel and practical advice, regulatory insight, corporate guidance, and creative solutions to all manner of healthcare-related clients – helping grow their businesses and bring valuable offerings to the market in this most highly regulated of industries.

Biography

The trusted counsel to a client base touching different corners of the healthcare field, Matthew advises on all aspects of corporate formation, governance, transactions, regulatory compliance, and licensure, as well as all day-to-day operational matters.
 
As Chair of the firm’s Healthcare Group, Matthew draws upon significant relevant experience prior to joining the firm, including his time as a partner in the leading national healthcare practice of an Am Law 50 law firm and as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel to a publicly-traded biotech company. He serves a vast array of clients, including hospitals, health systems, academic health centers, individual providers, ambulatory surgery centers, and diagnostic and treatment centers, as well as digital health companies, investors, and myriad other related organizations.
 
For his professional accomplishments, Matthew has been named a top practitioner by Chambers USA and Thomas Reuters (Super Lawyers – Healthcare – New York). He is a well-recognized industry thought leader on healthcare regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters, having authored dozens of articles for a variety of publications including Health Law360 and the National Law Review – the latter for which he bylined a long running guest column highlighting healthcare technology developments.
 
Representative matters:
  •  Advise health care providers on the planning, structuring, and negotiation of health care transactions (mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures), business arrangements, and strategic partnerships, including transactions involving physician practices, licensed facilities (e.g., ASCs and D&TCs), IPAs, ACOs, MSOs, hospitals, long-term care facilities and agencies (e.g., nursing homes and home health companies), and venture capital and private equity investors.
  • Advise investors in health care businesses on compliance with the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM), licensure and other regulatory requirements, including strategies for structuring such businesses and operations in a compliant manner.
  • Counsel clients on health regulatory compliance matters, including self-referral (Stark Law), Anti-Kickback, fee-splitting, HIPAA and licensure.
  • Counsel for-profit and not-for-profit Boards on strategy, governance, best practices, risk management, and fiduciary duties and obligations.
  • Provide guidance to companies and shareholders/investors on partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, and operating agreements, and counsel clients on resolving business disputes among investors and management.
  • Advise on the implementation of HIPAA compliance programs, OCR investigations, HIPAA Breach responses, and various cyber security and interoperability issues.
  • Guiding providers and healthcare technology companies in telehealth agreements and license agreements within the digital health sector.

Education

  • J.D., St. John’s School of Law, 2011
  • B.A., Brooklyn College, 2008

BAR Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • Connecticut

HONORS

  • Chambers USA – Healthcare New York
  • Thomson Reuters – Super Lawyers – Healthcare – New York

CLERKSHIPS

Judicial Fellow for the Honorable Roger N. Rosengarten, New York Supreme Court, Queens County.

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