A partner in the health care practice, Christina Bergeron provides strategic business and regulatory counsel to prominent health care companies and private equity clients. She regularly advises on complex transactions across a wide range of health care industry sectors including primary care, telehealth, behavioral health, dentistry, home health, kidney care and others.
With a background in business and finance, as well as hands-on experience helping to run a small business, Christina brings a unique perspective to her work. Clients value her abilities as a trusted counselor—whether talking through risk, negotiating challenging provisions or finding creative ways to resolve the myriad regulatory issues that transactions often present. They also appreciate the deep and varied knowledge of the health care landscape she has gained through her deal work.
Community is extremely important to Christina. In addition to taking an active role in mentoring and training associates at Ropes & Gray, she is involved with the firm’s pro bono efforts, specifically related to immigration.
Experience
Health Care Operations and Transactions
- Guided clients through complex mergers, acquisitions and affiliations in areas that include:
- Corporate practice of dentistry/medicine
- Telehealth
- Primary Care
- Behavioral Health
- Devices
- Dialysis/ESRD
- Digital Health
- DME
- Home health and hospice
- Manufacturing
- Medicare Advantage risk
- Value-based contracting
- Advised 1Life Healthcare Inc., which operates under the name One Medical, on health care and related matters in its sale to Amazon for approximately $3.9 billion.
- Advised alternative asset management firms Blackstone and TPG as health care and FDA regulatory counsel in an agreement to acquire Hologic, Inc. in a transaction valued at up to $79 per share, representing an enterprise value of up to $18.3 billion.
- Advised Heartland Dental on its acquisition of Smile Design Dentistry, a DSO in Florida with a network of 60 supported dental offices across central Florida. This significant transaction enabled Heartland—one of the world’s first and leading DSOs—to further expand its network of supported offices in Florida through the acquisition of a Florida-focused DSO.
- Advised Patient Square Capital as health care regulatory counsel in its acquisition of Premier, Inc. in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.
- Assisted Bain Capital Double Impact in its acquisition of Legacy Hospice.
Regulatory and Compliance
- Advised clients on a full range of regulatory issues, including Medicare Advantage, value-based healthcare (including CMMI requirements), fraud and abuse, self-referral laws, licensing, and HIPAA privacy issues.
Telehealth
- Advises a range of telehealth clients, such as Calm Health, Ceribell, LifeStance, Strive Health, and Virta Health on health care regulatory matters in the context of transaction as well as compliance with applicable state and federal telehealth regulations impacting their operations.
Licensing
- Counsels clients on state market transaction laws and how to manage these laws in connection with add-ons and other transaction types.
- Counseled clients in the long-term care and senior living industry on state licensing and Medicare enrollment matters, as well as other regulatory compliance and reimbursement matters. Served as certificate of need counsel for multiple adult care facilities and assisted living residence applicants in Illinois.
Infrastructure and Engineering Transactional Experience
- Represented Good Springs Capital in its majority investment in Tectonic, a full-service engineering firm.
- Represented New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of Consor, a transportation and water / wastewater engineering and consulting services firm.
- Represented Littlejohn in its aquisition of RailPros, a provider of engineering and field services intended for the railroad industry, from Court Square Capital Management.
- Represented Kohlberg & Co. and its portfolio company ENTRUST Solutions Group (formerly EN Engineering) in the sale of a minority stake in ENTRUST Solutions Group, an engineering firm, to Neuberger Berman.
Pro Bono
- Advised a pro bono client in connection with the negotiation and implementation of an EHR system and the requirements of EHR meaning use requirements.
- Advised multiple pro bono clients through immigration-related issues and filings, including federal court appearances on their behalf.