About Us / Jenny Wang

Jenny Wang

Partner

Jenny Wang focuses her practice on transactional and regulatory aspects of the health care industry, such as private equity physician practice management transactions, hospital-physician integration and affiliations, mergers and acquisitions, state corporate practice of medicine, and fraud and abuse matters. She advises medical groups, hospitals and health systems, medical foundation clinics, physician and dentistry practice management companies, private equity firms, health start-ups, and other health care entities.

Jenny draws from her own experience in the health sector prior to law school as a medical malpractice claims investigator for a professional liability insurance company and a biochemical research associate for a pharmaceutical company. She also has experience working in Shanghai, China, on cross-border corporate transactions. Prior to joining Athene Law, Jenny was a Partner in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group of McDermott Will & Emery.

Career Highlights and Representative Matters

Represented “buy-side” private equity firms and platforms as well as “sell-side” medical practices in physician practice management transactions.
Advised California hospitals, medical foundations and medical groups in hospital-physician integration efforts and affiliation transactions.
Advised hospitals and other provider clients on federal and state Anti-Kickback and self-referral laws.
Advised start-ups in legal structuring to comply with state corporate practice of medicine doctrine.
Advised a state dental association in the design and implementation of a practice support business line.
Assisted with the formation of a limited liability company among Anthem Blue Cross and six other competitive hospital systems in the Los Angeles area. The venture, “Anthem Blue Cross Vivity,” offers a network of 6,000 doctors and 14 hospitals, in total, to large self-insured employers.
Represented nonprofit hospitals in multiple joint venture transactions with management companies and physician groups, including ambulatory surgery centers and imaging centers.
Represented hospitals and health systems in tax-exempt bond financing transactions.
Represented an international clinical laboratory company in multiple acquisitions of US laboratory companies.
Represented a religious nonprofit health system in a public-to-private conversion of a California district hospital.
Served as contributing editor of the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook, examining the multitude of issues that those who represent hospitals and health systems need to be informed.

Education

Jenny earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley and received her J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.