Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Corporate Transactions

Partner - Corporate Transactions

Global Leader - Healthcare & Life Sciences Team

Jennifer Hutchens is the global leader of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice. She represents healthcare providers, ancillary service providers, licensed agencies, non-profits, management services organizations, medical device companies and other industry-based clients of all sizes. In the midst of this complex and highly technical regulatory landscape, clients rely on Jennifer to help achieve their strategic, operational and compliance goals.

Jennifer builds and maintains long-term relationships with clients and is a trusted partner and adviser. She has a strong passion for the healthcare and life sciences industries and particularly excels in advising clients as they implement novel, first-of-their-kind solutions and transactions. She regularly advises clients on topics of health innovation, including artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth and concierge medicine. Jennifer also exceeds in assisting companies pivoting their business into the healthcare and life sciences industries for the first time, providing client intelligent solutions.

Jennifer has deep experience interpreting federal and state healthcare guidance, including the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, federal Physician Sunshine Transparency Act, surprise/balance billing laws and price transparency rules.

Jennifer's transactional practice is focused on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and other affiliation and collaboration transactions, as well as healthcare contracting matters (professional services, managed and value-based care, and other arrangements).

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS North Carolina Super Lawyers - Health Care, 2024 Best Lawyers of America - Healthcare Law, 2015 -2024 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers - Healthcare, 2018-2023 Career Choices in the Law (Charlotte Mecklenburg Middle Schools) - Mentor, 2023 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Healthcare Power List, 2023 Duke Alumni Admissions Program - Admissions Interviewer, 2007-present Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation - Scholar & Alumna, 1999-present Toyota Scholars - Scholar & Alumna, 1999-present North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star - Healthcare, 2013-2021 Charlotte Healthcare Law Lawyer of the Year, 2018 Mecklenburg County Bar Young Lawyers Division - Young Lawyer of the Year, 2011