Kayla is a member of the firm’s Healthcare Department, one of the largest healthcare practices in the United States. In her practice, she primarily focuses on healthcare transactions and related compliance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic affiliations, joint ventures, and divestitures.
She regularly counsels large physician practices, private equity funds, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, imaging facilities, and lenders through complex deal processes. In this capacity, she negotiates operating agreements, purchase agreements, subscription agreements, physician employment agreements, and management agreements. She also counsels clients on a variety of other regulatory matters in connection with transactions and strategic affiliations, including corporate structuring, corporate practice of medicine, licensing, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA issues.
Within the Healthcare Department, Kayla leads the firm’s working group on the women’s health subsector, as well as hospital and health system ventures. In this role, she is a frequent publisher of thought leadership on developing transactional and compliance matters in both subsectors, hosts a monthly transactional podcast, and presents several webinar series on key transactional and regulatory matters impacting physician practices, health systems, and private equity funds.
Before graduating first in her class from William & Mary Law School, Kayla served as notes editor for the William & Mary Law Review. While attending William & Mary Law School, Kayla also received the Benjamin Rush Award for excellence in Health Law.
“…Wise beyond her years, highly responsive, articulate and communicative, has the ability to communicate complex concepts in understandable terms, willing to share knowledge and expertise with others, no ego.” – Legal 500, 2022
Experience
- Representation of the parent to a physician owned hospital and ambulatory surgery center in a majority equity sale to a joint venture partnership among major health systems and a national ambulatory healthcare provider.
- Representation of a Pennsylvania ophthalmology practice and eye ambulatory surgery center in a multi-million dollar sale to a leading management services organization serving the ophthalmology sector.
- Representation of a national management services organization and one of the nation’s largest single-specialty physician networks in the partnership and acquisition of an OB/GYN practice with offices in Massachusetts.
- Representation of one of the largest providers of Outpatient Surgery in the U.S. in its reorganization of a California-based surgical center.
- Representation of an owner and operator of ambulatory surgery centers, anatomic pathology laboratories, anesthesia entities and physician practices in its $10 million acquisition of an entity that provides the technical aspects of surgical services.
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William & Mary Law SchoolJD
summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, Notes Editor, William & Mary Law Review
2014 -
Davidson CollegeBAPolitical Science and History
with Honors
2011
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Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Health Care Law, 2023, 2024, 2025
Selected for inclusion in “Legal 500 United States,” Healthcare: Service Providers, 2022-2024
Selected for inclusion in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare, Illinois, Chambers USA, 2024
Named to “Healthcare Power List,” North Carolina Lawyer Weekly, 2023
Recipient, “2023 Emerging Leaders Award,” The M&A Advisor, 2023
Named to “Reader’s Choice Awards,” for “U.S. Senate Passes American Rescue Plan — 10 Key Updates for Healthcare Providers,” one of the most-read articles, JD Supra, 2022
- Author, Key Takeaways From the 2024 Healthcare Finance and Growth Conference, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 15, 2024
- Author, A View From the Top: Matt Devine of Allied Health Management Services Organization, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 3, 2024
- Author, FAQs: An Essential Guide for Healthcare Leaders Navigating FTC’s Non-Compete Ban, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 26, 2024
- Co-author, "Is Your Health System Ready for What’s Next? A Recession or More Malaise?," Juniper Advisory, September 19, 2023
- Author, Five Things to Know: Hospital Joint Venture Arrangements in Today’s Landscape, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 6, 2023
- Author, Private Equity in Healthcare – An Updated Review of Selected Niche Investment Areas, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 7, 2023
- Author, Reproductive Health Confidentiality: HHS Proposes Stronger Privacy Measures, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 5, 2023
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Provider Relief Fund Late Reporting Requests for Extenuating Circumstances Accepted April 11-22, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 20, 2023
- Author, Women in PE to Know: Erin Lansky, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 1, 2022
- Author, Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Jessica Hudson, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 6, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: May 18 Deadline to Request Late Reporting for Provider Relief Fund Period 2, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 16, 2022
- Author, Key Regulatory Topics for Women’s Health Businesses, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 27, 2022
- Author, Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Caroline Stevens, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 26, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Provider Relief Fund Late Reporting Requests for Extenuating Circumstances Accepted April 11-22, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 7, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Looming Deadlines to Report Provider Relief Fund Period 2 Payments and COVID-19 Vaccine Claims, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 28, 2022
- Author, Subsector Snapshots — Investor Interest in Dental Subsector Continues in 2022 and Likely Beyond, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 21, 2022
- Author, Subsector Snapshots — Brisk Investment Continues in Growing Urology Subsector, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 21, 2022
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: HHS to Reopen Provider Relief Fund Period 1 Reporting Dec. 13–20, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 10, 2021
- Author, Transaction Considerations and Regulatory Updates for Hospital Executives: Five Key Takeaways, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 10, 2021
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: HHS Grants Reporting Grace Period Until Nov. 30 for Provider Relief Fund, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 28, 2021
- Author, Transaction and Regulatory Concerns for Women’s Health and Fertility: Five Key Takeaways, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 18, 2021
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: Reporting Portal Opens, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 6, 2021
- Author, Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 21, 2021
- Author, President Signs American Rescue Plan — Five Key Healthcare Themes, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 12, 2021
- Author, Update: House Passes, President to Sign American Rescue Plan With Senate Healthcare Provisions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 10, 2021
- Author, U.S. Senate Passes American Rescue Plan – 10 Key Updates for Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 8, 2021
- Author, Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Lauren Morera, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 3, 2021
- Author, U.S. House Passes American Rescue Plan – 15 Provisions for Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 1, 2021
- Author, The Effects of COVID-19 on Private Equity in Healthcare – A Review of Selected Niche Investment Areas, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 5, 2021
- Author, HHS Delays Provider Relief Fund Reporting — Five Updates for Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 19, 2021
- Author, Dental Key Leader: Tim Constantine, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 19, 2021
- Author, Dental Key Leader: Ray Caruso, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 5, 2021
- Author, Dental Industry Leader: Grace Yum, DDS, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 30, 2020
- Author, Stopgap Funding Supports Healthcare Providers, Includes Medicare Advance Payment Changes, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 30, 2020
- Author, Dental Key Leader: Merritt Dake, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 22, 2020
- Author, CARES Act Healthcare Provider Relief Fund Update: New Distribution and Extended Deadlines, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 10, 2020
- Author, Provider Relief Funds: New Dental Distribution and More for Safety-Net and Rural Hospitals, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 13, 2020
- Author, Healthcare Private Equity and COVID-19: Five Key Trends and Considerations in Acquisitions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 26, 2020
- Author, June 3 Deadline for Provider Relief Fund and HHS Guidance for Acquisitions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 22, 2020
- Author, HHS Extends Attestation Deadline and Issues Further Guidance for Provider Relief Fund, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 7, 2020
- Author, HHS Provides Additional Guidance on COVID-19 Uninsured Program and Opens Portal, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 29, 2020
- Author, HHS Opens $20 Billion General Distribution CARES Act Application — Key Points for Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 27, 2020
- Author, Update #2: 10 Financial Support Opportunities for Healthcare Companies During the COVID-19 Crisis, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 24, 2020
- Author, HHS Announces Release of Remaining $70 Billion of CARES Act Funds to Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 23, 2020
- Author, Payment Attestation Portal for the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund Now Open, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 17, 2020
- Author, HHS Updates Eligibility for 30 Billion CARES Act Provider Relief Fund, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 14, 2020
- Author, HHS Begins Funding $30 Billion to Medicare Providers – Attestations to Be Required, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 10, 2020
- Author, DOJ Settlement Resolves Allegations of Individual Liability, The FCA Insider, November 26, 2019
- Author, Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Emily Castle, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 18, 2019
- Author, "Fertility and Women’s Health Investments – 6 Key Points," The Healthcare Investor, May 28, 2019
- Author, Investments in Provider Support Technology: Mobile Apps, Revenue Cycle Businesses, and Similar Investments – 5 Key Points, The Healthcare Investor, May 15, 2019
- Author, HHS-OIG Issues Favorable Opinion on Gainsharing Arrangement, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 22, 2018
- Co-author, "A Beautiful Investment: Regulatory Considerations for Investors in Cosmetic Dermatology," Bender's Health Care Law Monthly, September 2017
- Co-author, "Sedation, Anesthesia and the Practice of Dentistry," Bender’s Health Care Law Monthly, July 1, 2017
- Co-author, "Behavioral Health: Where the Integration of Care Is Fueling Industry Growth, Increased Access to Services, and Investment Opportunities," Bender’s Health Care Law Monthly, June 1, 2017
- Co-author, "Investors’ Interest In Dermatology Is More Than Skin-Deep," Law360, August 14, 2015
- Co-author, "What Investors Can Learn From States’ Health Initiatives," Law360, March 26, 2015
- Co-author, "The Advantages of a DSO: Part 1 — Focus on Patients and Regulatory Compliance," Dr.Bicuspid.com, February 11, 2015
- Author, Highlights from the 2015 OIG Work Plan, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 6, 2014
- North Carolina
- Speaker, Women’s Health Webinar, November 14, 2024
- Presenter, Bootcamp for Healthcare Operating Companies, October 22, 2024
- Presenter, "Bootcamp for Healthcare Operating Companies: Solution-Oriented Actions for Maximizing an Operating Company's Impact," Panelist, "Deep Dive Into the Antitrust Climate" and Moderator, "The Intersection of Health Systems, Independent Providers and Healthcare Investors," 17th Annual Healthcare Finance & Growth Conference, September 25 - 26, 2024
- Speaker, Non-Compete Applicability to Healthcare Providers and Facilities, May 23, 2024
- Moderator, "Modernizing Women’s Health," 2024 McGuireWoods Healthcare Private Equity and Finance Conference, May 9, 2024
- Speaker, Regulatory Actions and M&A Activity Impacting Hospitals and Health Systems, May 1, 2024
- Moderator, "Take Action on Health Equity: How to Achieve Great, Fast Results" and "M&A Aftermath: How to Lead A Successful Hospital Integration," Becker’s Healthcare 14th Annual Meeting, April 9, 2024
- Speaker, Subsectors to Watch in 2024, March 19, 2024
- Speaker, Regulatory and Transactional Updates for Hospitals and Health Systems, November 2, 2023
- Speaker, The Payor Services Market, October 24, 2023
- Moderator, "Recent Developments in Women’s Health and Fertility," 16th Annual Healthcare Finance and Growth Conference, September 28, 2023
- Speaker, Women’s Health: Regulatory Updates and Key Topics, August 30, 2023
- Speaker, Hospital Joint Ventures, August 2, 2023
- Speaker, Healthcare Add-on Acquisition Integration, Webinar, June 6, 2023
- Host, "Crafting Successful Healthcare Investments: The Power of the Right Partners and Assets," Across the Table, A Healthcare Private Equity Podcast, May 15, 2023
- Moderator, "Hot Topics in Women’s Health and Fertility Investments," 19th Annual Healthcare Private Equity and Finance Conference, March 1, 2023
- Host, "A True Partnership: How To Grow a Successful Business Between Clinicians and Investors," Across the Table, A Healthcare Private Equity Podcast, January 9, 2023
- Host, "Looking at Acquisitions and MSOs in a New Light with SCA Health’s Kyle Lynch," Across the Table, A Healthcare Private Equity Podcast, December 5, 2022
- Speaker, Hospital Compliance Considerations for Physician Compensation, November 30, 2022
- Moderator, "Recent Developments in Women's Health and Fertility," 15th Annual Healthcare Finance and Growth Conference, September 15, 2022
- Guest, "How Increased Demand Is Driving Interest in Women’s Health Investing," The Professor’s Corner, July 21, 2022
- Moderator, State of the Fertility Market: A Roundtable Discussion, May 17, 2022
- Speaker, Dental, Oral Surgery and Orthodontic Roundtable, May 3, 2022
- Speaker, Key Regulatory Topics for Women’s Health Businesses, April 14, 2022
- Moderator, "Hot Topics in Women’s Health Investments," 18th Annual Healthcare Private Equity & Finance Conference, February 17, 2022
- Moderator, Roundtable With Dealmakers in Women’s Health, November 10, 2021
- Speaker, Key Deal Concerns and Regulatory Updates for Hospital Executives, Webinar, November 2, 2021
- Speaker, Key Transaction Considerations for Women’s Health and Fertility Businesses, August 11, 2021
- Speaker, A Primer for Sellers: Dental and DSO Transactions, June 9, 2021
- Speaker, "DSOs and Dental Practices: Surviving and Thriving in the COVID-19 Era," Dental Service Organization Q&A With McGuireWoods, April 17, 2020
- Speaker, Healthcare Acquisition Considerations in the COVID-19 Era, May 12, 2020
- Speaker, Updates on Key Forms of Relief for Healthcare Companies in Response to COVID-19, May 6, 2020
- Speaker, Understanding Key Forms of Relief for Healthcare Companies in Response to COVID-19, April 21, 2020
- Speaker, "DSOs and Dental Practices: Surviving and Thriving in the COVID-19 Era," DSOs and Dental Practices, April 17, 2020
- Speaker, "Non-Payer Business Contracting: Get to Know What You Don’t Know," Urgent Care Association of America, Webinar, April 16, 2020
- Speaker, "Regulatory Updates for Dental Practices," Dental Practice Management Webinar Series, August - December 2019
- Speaker, "The Growth of Physician Practice Management Companies and Their Impact on Healthcare and ASCs," Becker’s ASC Review: 26th Annual Meeting: The Business and Operations of ASCs, Chicago, IL, October 24, 2019
- Moderator, "Behavioral Health: Autism Care, Eating Disorders and Outpatient Mental Health," 14th Annual Healthcare Finance and Growth Conference, September 17, 2019
- Moderator, "The Best Thoughts on Controlling Labor Costs, What Projects to Invest In, and How to Identify the Source of Increasing Revenues," Beckers Hospital Review 10th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2, 2019
- Moderator, "Fertility and Women’s Health Investments," 16th Annual Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity and Finance Conference, February 20-21, 2019
- Speaker, A Healthcare Industry Primer for Private Equity Professionals, November 28, 2018
- Moderator, "New Strategies for Physician Practice Management," 13th Annual Healthcare Finance and Growth Conference, September 25, 2018
- Speaker, Dermatology Transactions: Key Legal and Mergers & Acquisitions Trends, July 12, 2018
- Speaker, Key Acquisition Diligence Questions for DSOs, Planet DDS, June 27, 2018
- Moderator, "The Biggest Challenges in ASCs," AHLA In-House Counsel Program & Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2018
- Moderator, "The Biggest Challenges in ASCs," Becker’s 16th Annual Future of Spine + The Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, June 14 - 15, 2018
- Speaker, Dental Practice Transactions: Buying and Selling, Mergers and Affiliations, Strafford Publications, Inc., CLE Webinar, May 3, 2018
- Moderator, "The Best Ideas for Population Health, ACOs, PHOs and Shared-Savings Agreements" and "Developing A Core Strategy for 2018 – 2020," Becker’s Hospital Review 9th Annual Meeting, April 12, 2018
- Speaker, "What Health Care Reform Means for the ASC Industry," Texas ASC Society’s 2018 Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, February 28, 2018
- Moderator, "Behavioral Health II – Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse and Related Investments," 15th Annual Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity and Finance Conference, February 21, 2018
- Speaker, 2018 Anti-Kickback and Stark Act Issues, January 24, 2018
- Moderator, "Private Equity in Dermatology," 12th Annual Healthcare Provider Conference: Healthcare Finance and Growth, September 12, 2017
- Moderator, "Leadership and Management: What does it mean to be a Great Leader? What are you most Proud of as a Leader? How do you stay Motivated and more!," Becker’s Hospital Review 5th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, Chicago, IL, November 7, 2016
- Moderator, "Dental Practice Management," 11th Annual Healthcare Provider Conference: Healthcare Finance and Growth, October 11, 2016
- Speaker, "Preparing for Your Transaction (Parts I and II)," ASC Sales and Transactions, August 25, 2016
- Speaker, Dermatology Practice Transactions: Key Issues and Trends, McGuireWoods LLP Webinar, March 15, 2016
- Moderator, "Hospital Mergers, Acquisitions and Affiliations," 10th Annual Healthcare Provider Conference: Healthcare Finance and Growth, September 17, 2015
- Moderator, "Hospital Regulation, Compliance and Data Privacy Issues," 9th Annual Healthcare Provider Conference, September 18, 2014