Susan Leach DeBlasio

For her longstanding business and corporate, health care, construction, and real estate clients in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Susan works diligently to understand their business and legal needs to provide innovative yet practical solutions to their pressing problems. With her in-depth experience and years of counseling executives and senior management, Susan effectively assists clients to minimize potential litigation and disputes.

From corporate governance to high-stakes acquisitions and joint ventures, from negotiation and drafting construction documents for owners, design professionals, and contractors, to all aspects of the construction process, including land acquisition and project financing to documentation, from business succession planning and distributorship arrangements to secured lending and other forms of corporate finance structuring, Susan provides her clients with strategic counsel and advice.

She is also adept at advising health care institutions and medical professionals across a wide spectrum of issues, including licensing, managed-care products, provider agreements, medical fraud and abuse, regulatory compliance, and medical-staff organization and credentialing. A frequent speaker to health care professionals and community groups, and presenter at Bar Association seminars, Susan is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and, for more than five years, served as the legal writer for the monthly Health Care Professional.