LaDale K. George Joins Healthcare Industry Group

CHICAGO, Ill. (January 14, 2015) - Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that LaDale K. George has joined the Chicago office as a partner in the firm’s Healthcare industry group.  LaDale was previously a partner at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg.

“LaDale is a highly regarded advisor to innovative healthcare enterprises on regulatory compliance and business transactions,” said David Robbins, head of Perkins Coie’s Healthcare industry group.  “His experience over the past 20 years providing strategic counsel to businesses in the healthcare industry and other heavily regulated industries fits well with our national practice and the high level of service our clients expect and receive from us.  We are delighted to welcome LaDale to Perkins Coie.”

LaDale guides clients engaged in traditional and innovative healthcare businesses through complicated regulatory frameworks, including FDA, OHRP, NIH, and ORI regulated clinical research, clinical development, and post-approval marketing compliance; telehealth/telemedicine and multistate provider licensing compliance; Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance; FTC and CMS regulated clinical integration, and federal research grant management compliance.  His corporate practice focuses on representing healthcare and non-healthcare businesses in corporate formations and governance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, licensing arrangements, and joint ventures, including strategic affiliations and clinical integrations.  LaDale’s primary client base ranges from startups to Fortune 100 companies, including single hospital and multi-state large health systems, large physician practices, technology-enabled healthcare companies, small to midsize non-healthcare businesses, and small to large pharmaceutical, medical device and in vitro diagnostic companies.

LaDale earned his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where he received a Council on Legal Education Opportunity Fellowship and was the Executive Director of the National Black Law Students Association.  He received his B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Kansas, where he was a Kansas Endowment Scholar.  He is a former president of the Muslim Bar Association of Chicago and currently serves on its board of directors, as well as on the board of the Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy and educational organization.  He is on the editorial board of Clinical Trial Advisor.

Perkins Coie’s Healthcare industry group represents clients located in all sectors of the healthcare industry, including hospitals, academic medical centers, physician practices, pharmacies, imaging centers, medical device and supply manufacturers and distributors, behavioral health providers, long-term care facilities, medical suppliers and individual practitioners.

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