Ranee Adipat
Counsel
Ranee represents hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, clinically integrated networks, revenue cycle management companies and other health care entities in sophisticated, precedent setting transactions. She has over a decade of corporate experience, including in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and affiliations. 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 Atrium Health in its strategic combination with Advocate Aurora Health to create 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
Publications
- Cited, “Ropes & Gray to Open Third Calif. Office in Los Angeles,” The Recorder (December 20, 2021)
- Cited, “Ropes & Gray Opens Los Angeles Office with Paul Hastings Hire,” Bloomberg Law (December 20, 2021)
- Co-author, “Corporate and Transactional Considerations for Health Care Entities in Financial Distress,” book Health Law Watch published by American Health Law Association (September 2021)
- Profiled, “What's Next: Pandemic Spurs Health Care Transactions,” Law.com (April 7, 2021)
- Profiled, “How Ropes & Gray’s Expectation of Diversity Helped Win Over 2 Health Care Attorneys,” Law.com and The Recorder (April 8, 2021)
- Co-author, “Top Ten Issues in Health Law: #6 Resilience and Reinvention: Partnering in a Pandemic,” American Health Law Association (January 11, 2021)
- Co-author, “INSIGHT: Health-Care M&A Post-Pandemic—Opportunities, Not Opportunism,” Bloomberg Law (June 1, 2020)
- Co-author, “The COVID-19 Pandemic: Observations and Recommendations for Health Care Deals,” American Health Law Association (April 2, 2020)
- Co-author, “Hospital M&A activity update: Robust deal flow continues in 2017,” Becker’s Hospital Review (September 12, 2017)
Presentations
- Speaker, “Building a More Resilient and Better Aligned Academic Physician Enterprise,” Healthcare Law & Compliance Institute (October 4, 2021)
- “Resilience and Reinvention -- Partnering in a Pandemic,” American Health Law Association’s “Speaking of Health Law” podcast (April 16, 2021)
- Speaker, “Tips and Trends in Healthcare M&A,” 2018 Healthcare Law & Compliance Institute (March 14, 2018)
Education
- JD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
- MPA, New York University, 2006
- BA, Rice University, 2004
Admissions / Qualifications
Qualifications
- California, 2021
- Colorado, 2015
- District of Columbia, 2014
- New York, 2011