Christopher M. Jedrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in the Firm’s Boston office. He is partner-in-charge of its Boston Health practice, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Centers practice.
Chris represents providers and HMO clients in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, sales of non-profit assets and operations to for-profit companies, and conversions from taxable to tax-exempt status. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including strategic affiliations, clinical research and faculty practice plans. Chris advises hospitals, colleges, universities, museums and other tax-exempt organizations on structuring executive compensation plans.
Chris’ notable projects include: advising on the establishment and ongoing operation of Atrius Health, a system of five nonprofit group practices with approximately 700,000 patients; advising Fallon Clinic on its conversion to tax-exempt status; advising Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on its clinical affiliations with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; acting as special counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts on its division into an insurance company and an HMO; advising Sarah Cannon Research Institute on regulatory issues associated with its oncology clinical trial network; advising St. Peter’s University Hospital on its academic and clinical affiliations with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University College of Medicine; and providing regulatory and tax advice on the formation and ongoing operations of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, most recently with respect to its establishment of four community-based satellite clinics.
Chris is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Public Charities Division, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the editorial boards of BNA Medical Research Law & Policy and Taxation of Exempts. He is ranked in the 1st tier of healthcare lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide and was selected for Nightingales Healthcare News’ 2008 list of “Outstanding Hospital Lawyers.” He is also ranked in The Best Lawyers in America (2010). Chris is a frequent lecturer and author on regulatory, tax and governance matters, and he is a member of the Graduate Tax Program faculty at Boston University School of Law. He is also a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a member of the board of the Boston chapter of the American Heart Association.
While at the University of Massachusetts, Chris was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1980-1981.
Education
- Boston College Law School, J.D., 1984
- Harvard University, Ph.D., 1977
- Harvard University, M.A., 1972
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., 1971
