Health Care Law
Health Care Law
The law relating to health care, both provincially and federally, is complex and requires legal expertise. At Cohen Highley LLP, we have many decades of experience in assisting clients in this area of law.
The lawyers at Cohen Highley LLP represent many specialists across Ontario in the fields of medicine, dentistry, chiropractic, optometry and psychology. With offices in London, Kitchener, Windsor, Strathroy, and Sarnia, our experience permits us to assist you with planning and executing the incorporation and organization of your professional corporations and navigate the regulatory framework to ensure that your professional corporation is properly licensed. We routinely provide advice concerning associations and cost sharing agreements, along with structuring multi-disciplinary arrangements amongst health care providers. We are able to represent you in the purchase and sale of practices to ensure that your transaction is completed in a timely manner. We can also assist you with the day to day issues that arise in the management of your practice.
We have substantial experience in legal matters relating to the practices of dentists, physicians, pharmacists, psychologists, optometrists and other health care professionals in the Province of Ontario. We are consulted regularly concerning healthcare matters, including the following:
- Purchase and sale of health care practices
- Compliance with College regulators of health care practices
- Incorporation and organization of professional corporations
- Re-organization of health care practices for tax planning purposes
- Preparation and/or scrutiny of various agreements including association and cost sharing contracts for health care professionals, as well as shareholder, partnership and co-venturer agreements
- Real estate and leasing matters relating to health care offices
- Financing for the purchase of professional practices
- Employment law matters relating to health care practices
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