Health Partners Named AHLA Fellows
CHICAGO (May 26, 2006) — McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that health partners, Bernadette M. Broccolo and Michael W. Peregrine have been selected by the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) as Fellows of its organization. The Fellows program recognizes the importance of AHLA's life-long leader community and was established to create a forum for former AHLA leaders to remain active and continue to contribute to its success. Ms. Broccolo and Mr. Peregrine join McDermott partners, Michael F. Anthony, Gary Scott Davis, Douglas M. Mancino and Joel L. Michaels, who were named AHLA Fellows in 2005.
"This honor reflects the high regard members of the health industry have for both Bernadette and Michael," commented Mr. Anthony, head of the Firm's Health Department. "Being selected as a Fellow recognizes the contributions and thought leadership they continually bring to the industry."
Ms. Broccolo has been advising health industry organizations for more than 25 years on leading edge health industry relationship formation and realignments (e.g., joint ventures, governance restructurings, and relationships between institutional providers and physicians); health information technology acquisitions and electronic health information networks; programs for human subject research; and overall corporate compliance programs. Her practice includes the full scope of legal and regulatory compliance in the areas of federal taxation of exempt organizations and not-for-profit corporate governance, privacy, human subject protection and technology contracting. She is recognized nationally as one of the leading health care exempt organization practitioners. She has served continuously in leadership positions for organizations serving the health industry and the legal profession, including AHLA and the American Bar Association. Ms. Broccolo's experience and contributions to health law have also been recognized by her inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA 2005: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Illinois Super Lawyers.
Mr. Peregrine concentrates his practice in the representation of nonprofit health care facilities and systems and other charitable organizations, with particular focus on the corporate, fiduciary duty, tax and charitable trust issues facing such organizations. His experience includes the representation of nonprofit health care corporations and other charitable organizations in connection with the organization and operation of health care systems, including related governance issues and parent/subsidiary relationships. Mr. Peregrine participates as Nonprofit Law Advisor to the American Law Institute. He is recognized as one of the leading national practitioners in not-for-profit corporate law. Most recently, he has been noted for his role as a member of the Legal Framework Work Group of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, convened to advise the Senate Finance Committee on federal oversight legislation for nonprofit organizations. Additionally, Mr. Peregrine has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and Illinois Super Lawyers for his experience and contributions to the health law sector.
With an over 50-year history of serving the health care industry, McDermott Will & Emery has one of the United States' largest and most prestigious health law departments. Our nearly 100 health lawyers counsel leading organizations in every major sector of the health care industry on regulatory and business transaction issues.
AHLA is the nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the health care field. AHLA provides resources to address the issues facing its active members who practice in law firms, government, in-house settings and academia and who represent the entire spectrum of the health industry: physicians, hospitals and health systems, health maintenance organizations, health insurers, managed care companies, nursing facilities, home care providers, and consumers. For more information visit www.ahla.org.
