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Barbara Bennett
Partner, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Bennett's practice focuses on health care transactions, technology, and strategic business advice, with a concentration on health care technology and bioscience clients along with traditional health care businesses. She also counsels businesses on data protection issues, including compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security rules, consumer protection strategies and intellectual property laws.

Barbara's health care experience includes representation of technology and information services companies, health care providers and payors, investment banks, and management service companies in transactions involving life sciences companies, information technology services businesses, physicians, hospitals and academic medical centers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other managed care entities. She also counsels both early-stage and established technology and biotechnology clients.

Barbara has spoken extensively on health care legal issues and was editor of the 2002 BNA treatise E-Health Business and Transactional Law. She is trained in dispute resolution and served on the approved panel for court-appointed mediators in Tennessee state courts. Barbara was appointed to and served on both the Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson in 1997, Barbara was General Counsel and corporate secretary of an HMO management company, TriPoint Health Group. There she was responsible for the overall management of the internal and external legal and regulatory affairs of the company and its subsidiaries.

Prior to that, from 1986-1995, she was Associate General Counsel of Vanderbilt University, representing the University’s Health Sciences Center for managed care issues and transactions matters, and representing the university overall for intellectual property and technology transfers, cost accounting (including audit and negotiation), and insurance and risk management. She created and implemented policy and strategy, as well as evaluated and structured joint ventures and other business opportunities for the university in health care, technology, and other areas.

Representative Experience
Outside business and contract counsel for leading life sciences international trade association, including for creation of an international informatics standards setting organization.

Representation of publicly-traded company with proprietary treatment methodology in numerous national licensing deals.

Counsel and manage transactions for publicly-traded information services company that provides data analytics to the pharmaceutical industry.

Provide structuring advice and handle transactions for publicly-traded services business in implementing national roll-out of health care strategy.

Representation of a major investment banking firm in acquisition and follow-on financings of 20 for-profit hospitals.

PRACTICES/INDUSTRIES
Health
Life Sciences
Corporate, Finance, and Tax
Mergers and Acquisitions
Privacy
Corporate Governance
AREAS OF FOCUS
  • Asset Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances
  • Health Care Technology and Biotechnology
  • Health Privacy, HIPAA
  • Dispute Resolution
EDUCATION
J.D., Order of the Coif, Vanderbilt University Law School, 1983 B.S., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Vanderbilt University, 1973
MEMBERSHIPS
  • Member, American Health Lawyer's Association
  • Member, National Roster of Neutrals, American Arbitration Association
  • Member, American Health Lawyer's Association ADR Panel
  • Member, National Association of College and University Counsel
  • Chair, Transactional and Business Law Interest Group, Health Law Section, American Bar Association, 2002-2004
  • Former Member, Board of Directors, National Association of College and University Counsel, 1991-1994
AWARDS/RANKINGS
  • Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers, Top 50 Women, 2007-2008; Health Care, 2007
  • Legal Times, Life Sciences Leading Lawyers, 2006
  • Expert Guide to Leading U.S. Health Care Lawyers, 2006
  • Nightingale's Outstanding Healthcare Transactional Lawyers, 2003
BAR ADMISSIONS District of Columbia Tennessee
COURT ADMISSIONS Tennessee State Courts U.S. District Court, District of Columbia U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee U.S. Supreme Court