Steven L. "Steve" Pottle

Experience

• Counsel to First Cash Financial Services, Inc. in its $2.7 billion merger of equals with Cash America International, Inc. and listing on the NYSE.
• Counsel to Tenet Healthcare Corporation in its $575 million sale to WellStar Health System of Atlanta-area hospitals Atlanta Medical Center, North Fulton Hospital, Spalding Regional Hospital and Sylvan Grove Hospital, and related physician clinics.
• Counsel to The Schumacher Group, a leading provider of outsourced emergency and hospital medicine clinical staffing and other healthcare advisory services, in a recapitalization with Onex Corporation (TSX:OCX).
• Counsel to Halyard Health, Inc., in its $1.7 billion tax-free spinoff from Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
• Counsel to Harden Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of Capstar Partners and KKR, in a tax-free merger with Gentiva Health Services, Inc., (GTIV) valued at $410 million and related spinoff of Harden’s long-term care business to its shareholders.
• Counsel to Ambulatory Services of America, Inc., a portfolio company of Lindsay Goldberg and MedCare Investment Funds, in sale of dialysis business to U.S. Renal Care, Inc., a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, and related sale of ASA’s radiation oncology business to Vantage Oncology, LLC, a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital Partners.
• Counsel to TechHealth, Inc., a leading provider of workers’ compensation and occupational health, in sale to One Call Care Management, Inc., a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners.
• Counsel to PSS World Medical in its $2.1 billion sale to McKesson Corporation.
• Counsel to High Point Regional Health System in a merger with University of North Carolina Health Care System.
• Counsel to a global medical product and device company based in Europe in numerous acquisitions, including a $276 million acquisition of the Therapeutic Support Systems division from Kinetic Care Concepts, a $750 million acquisition of the cardiac and vascular surgery division of Boston Scientific, an $860 million tender offer purchase of Datascope, a U.S. publicly traded cardiovascular device company, and a $680 million acquisition of Atrium Medical, a privately held cardiovascular device company.
• Counsel to Emory Healthcare in complex strategic partnership with Saint Joseph’s Health System.
• Counsel to a private equity sponsor in the purchase of a Florida-based pediatric company that provides alternative-site services to children with complex, long-term medical challenges and a New Jersey-based company that provides day health services for the elderly and disabled.
• Counsel to a Texas-based specialty financial services company in the purchase of a retail financial services chain in Mexico.
• Counsel to one of the largest diversified health care insurance companies in the acquisition of a primary care independent practice association in California and several follow-on acquisitions.
• Counsel to a publicly held specialty pharmacy distribution company in New York in a $300 million going private transaction with a private equity sponsor.
• Counsel to an automotive total loss and specialty salvage services company with operations in the southeast United States in the sale to Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc.
• Counsel to a global industrial materials firm based in the United Kingdom in the acquisition of Webtec Converting, Inc., a Knoxville-based privately held medical tape and related product manufacturer.
• Counsel to several Nashville-based diversified ancillary health care provider companies in numerous formation, financing, acquisition and restructuring transactions.
• Counsel to a company that designs and manufactures hospital linen automation systems in the sale to a private equity sponsor.
• Counsel to one of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the disposition of a health care system to a premier academic medical institution in Los Angeles.
• Counsel to a Memphis-based specialty pharmacy company in initial and follow-on public offerings, numerous acquisitions throughout the United States, governance matters and eventual sale for $2.5 billion.
• Company counsel in initial and follow-on public offerings of a home health care company based in Louisiana.
• Counsel to a large, Nashville-based dialysis chain in unique roll-up formation, initial and follow-on offerings, numerous acquisitions throughout the United States, governance matters and eventual sale for $4 billion.
• Underwriter counsel in initial and follow-on public offerings of a specialty pharmacy company in New York.
• Counsel to a financial advisor in the sale of a home health company in Virginia.
• Counsel to a major academic medical center in a hospital joint venture with one of the largest for-profit hospital chains.
• Counsel to one of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the disposition of a network of hospitals in New Orleans.
• Counsel to a health care information technology company in a spin-out from a major academic medical center and venture capital financing.