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Ranee represents hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, pediatric providers and other health care providers in sophisticated, precedent setting transactions. She has over 15 years of corporate experience, including in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and governance matters. Ranee provides clear, concise counsel to management and in-house legal teams while working seamlessly with consultants, financial advisors and co-outside counsel to ensure transaction completion.
Experience
- Represented St. Luke’s University Health Network in the integration of Grand View Health.
- Represented Rady Children’s Hospital in its merger with Children’s Hospital of Orange County to form Rady Children’s Health, a three-hospital pediatric system.
- Represented a national nonprofit health system in the acquisition of a five-hospital system in North Carolina.
- Represented a top 10 academic medical center in its acquisition of two acute care hospitals in San Francisco from CommonSpirit Health.
- Represented UCHealth in its acquisition of Parkview Health System.
- Represented St. Luke’s University Health Network in its research collaboration with Helix, Inc.
- Represented a nonprofit health system to establish a nursing school collaboration and pipeline program with a school of nursing to help address statewide nursing shortages.
- Represented Atrium Health in its strategic combination with Advocate Aurora Health to create Advocate Health, the fifth largest nonprofit health system in the country, with $27 billion in combined revenue and 67 hospitals located in six states.
- Represented The George Washington University (GW) in the sale of its ownership interest in George Washington University Hospital to Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) and the restructuring of GW’s long-term affiliation with UHS.
- Represented a California nonprofit health system in a joint venture with a publicly traded operator of ambulatory surgery centers to establish a new ambulatory surgery center.
- Represented Renown Health in its affiliation and long-term partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno, which established the first integrated health system in Nevada.
- Represented St. Luke’s University Health Network in its acquisition of Easton Hospital from Steward Health.*
- Represented GenesisCare USA, Inc. (f/k/a 21st Century Oncology) in its general contracting and transactional matters.*
- Represented R1 as co-counsel in its acquisition of Cerner RevWorks.*
- Represented Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Bon Secours Mercy Health in the formation of Health State Alliance, a statewide affiliation created to address Ohio’s critical health needs.*
- Represented Atrium Health in the formation of its Musculoskeletal Institute and entry into a co-management arrangement with multiple physician groups.*
- Represented St. Luke’s University Health Network in its entry into Civica Rx, a not-for-profit generic drug company, as a founding member.*
- Represented Rush University System for Health in the restructuring of Rush Health, its clinically integrated network.*
- Represented UCHealth on its acquisition of Pikes Peak Regional Hospital.*
- Represented UCHealth in its acquisition of the Yampa Valley Medical Center.*
- Represented Vanderbilt University on the spin-off of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including its ancillary businesses and sites and a 50-hospital affiliated network, to a newly formed independent organization.*
- Represented St. Louis University in its acquisition of St. Louis University Hospital and its joint venture with SSM Health.*
- Represented UCHealth in its entry into a ground lease in Colorado Springs with Children’s Hospital Colorado.*
- Represented Nebraska Medicine in its formation and the acquisition of University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians.*
*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray