Healthcare Facility Financing Alternatives
Legal and Business Strategies for Pursuing Capital, Refinancing or Debt Restructuring
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Thursday, January 28, 2010
Recorded event now available
This CLE seminar will discuss financing alternatives for legal counsel to hospitals and healthcare facilities pursuing new capital, refinancing or debt restructuring in the current economic environment.
Description
Many hospitals and healthcare facilities must devise new strategies to secure funding for facility upgrades, technology investments, and repayment of debt due to the current economy.
When evaluating financing alternatives, counsel to healthcare facilities face a number of unique legal issues, such as the facility's tax status, regulatory requirements, quality-of-care obligations, and charitable role.
Listen as our panel of attorneys and business advisors examines the options available to healthcare facilities pursuing new capital, refinancing or debt restructuring. The panel will offer legal and business strategies for hospitals and healthcare facilities to manage financing issues in the current economic environment.
Outline
- Overview — current financing trends for hospitals and healthcare facilities
- Weighing the options
- Financing and refinancing options
- Strategic alliance or sale of the hospital
- Accessing capital from lenders, HUD and other sources
- Negotiating restructuring plan with creditors, regulatory and financing authorities
- Section 363 considerations
- Chapter 11 protection
- Strategies for hospitals and healthcare facilities seeking funding
- Business strategies
- Legal/regulatory strategies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the current financing and refinancing options in the debt market for hospitals and healthcare facilities?
- How are lenders and the debt market handling defaults?
- What alternative means of capital are available to healthcare facilities and how can they be accessed?
- What are some legal and business strategies for healthcare facilities negotiating financial issues with creditors, regulators and the federal government?
Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
Deborah C. Gordon,
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago
She concentrates her practice in general corporate law with a specialization in the healthcare industry. She advises clients in the areas of general business, finance, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare, securities, regulatory, compliance, corporate governance, workouts, and privacy.
Additional faculty to be announced.
Ordering
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