Pat Cross advises the firm's life sciences, health care and technology clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Pat also helps clients negotiate research and development collaborations, analyze technology transfer and licensing issues, and develop regulatory compliance strategies, including anti-kickback, Stark, Medicare/Medicaid, antitrust, tax-exemption, HIPAA and HITECH compliance. He combines his experience in structuring and negotiating complex corporate transactions with his knowledge of the complicated regulatory environment in which health and life sciences companies operate to provide solid, practical advice to emerging and established companies. Pat has counseled health systems and pharmaceutical and medical device companies on structuring joint ventures and strategic alliances and related licensing arrangements.

Pat is a frequent speaker on corporate governance and health care regulatory matters, including antitrust, Accountable Care Organization, "meaningful use" of electronic health records, clinical integration, joint ventures, health care fraud and abuse, health information technology and corporate compliance issues.

Representative Transactions

• Lead counsel on the integration of regional, multi-hospital system into a major hospital system
• Lead counsel to one of the nation's largest health systems on the creation and funding of dozens of joint ventures, including hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers
• Represented tax-exempt entities in strategic alliances and joint ventures with for-profit health care entities
• Organized new tax-exempt entities to acquire and operate rural community hospitals
• Served as counsel to a strategic alliance organized by some of Indiana's leading public and private health care institutions to develop and operate a groundbreaking regional health information exchange
• Assisted major university technology transfer office with creation of life sciences and technology companies using intellectual property licensed from the university
• Organized a consortium of major universities focused on developing advanced manufacturing processes for the pharmaceutical industry
• Lead counsel in a joint venture transaction between a tax-exempt health system and a national for-profit entity for the development and management of ambulatory surgery centers
• Lead counsel in the negotiation of the sale and purchase of a network of community cancer clinics
• Lead counsel in the negotiation of an international joint venture to develop a commercial clinical research organization focused on Phase 1 oncology clinical trials
• Lead counsel in the development of an oncology co-management company joint venture
• Represented numerous health systems, hospitals, and multi- and single-specialty physician groups in the negotiation of exclusive and non-exclusive professional services agreements
• Advised providers and payors on the development of accountable care organizations

Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law and Health Care Law, 2005-12
• Chambers USA: A Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers — Corporate/M&A, 2005-11
• Indiana Super Lawyers — Health Care, since its first publication in 2004 to 2012
• Dr. John Morton-Finney Excellence in Legal Education Award
• Indianapolis Bar Foundation — Distinguished Fellow
• Indiana Law Journal — Editor-in-Chief
• Order of the Coif
• Indiana Governor's Fellowship

Professional Associations

• Indianapolis Bar Association — Former Member, Board of Managers and Pro Bono Standing Committee; Former Chair, Health Care Section
• Indiana State Bar Association — Former Chair, Health Care and Medicine Section; House of Delegates
• American Health Lawyers Association

Civic Activities

• Indiana Health Industry Forum — Director (Chair, Public Policy Committee)
• Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council — Membership Chair
• Off-Main Street Players, Inc. — Chairman
• HealthNet Foundation — Former Director and Executive Committee
• NCAA Final Four — Operations Committee
• Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series Graduate
• United Way of Central Indiana — Ardath Burkhart Board Leadership Development Series Graduate
• Zionsville Youth Soccer Association and Zionsville Little League — Coach

Presentations

• "Policy Challenges Ahead for the Medical Device, Pharma/Biotech and Health Care Delivery System Industries," Health & Life Sciences Industry Panel Moderator, Indiana Health Industry Forum, Indianapolis, May 2012
• "Health Care Law: Tensions and Convergence," Keynote Speaker, Indianapolis Bar Association Health Care Section, October 2011
• "Navigating the Legal Hurdles in Health Care Marketing," Co-Presenter with Michelle Kaiser Bray, Fineline University/SkillPath Seminars, Indianapolis, 2011
• "Key Antitrust Laws & Counseling Issues for Health Care Transactions," Speaker, Indianapolis Bar Association Health Care Section, Indianapolis, October 2010
• "Health Care Reform: The Road Ahead from Providers' and Payors' Perspectives," Moderator, Center for the Business of Life Sciences, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Indianapolis, September 2010
• "Joint Ventures Under Copperweld and American Needle: When Does a Health Care Transaction Create a Single Entity?," Speaker, ABA/AHLA Antitrust in Health Care Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2010