Health care organizations face increased focus on corporate governance by legislators and regulators, stakeholders, donors, patients and the communities they serve. Nonprofit and investor-owned companies alike face challenges with respect to legal compliance, transparency, executive compensation, leadership transitions, conflicts of interest, fiduciary duty and ethical leadership.

Our team has extensive experience in counseling health care organizations and their boards on a variety of corporate governance issues. We work with you to take proactive, best-practice positions and tackle problems effectively when they arise.

Dentons’ lawyers regularly advise boards on what they should do—and what they should avoid—in fulfilling their duties.

Areas of focus:

• Fiduciary duties 
• Conflicts of interest 
• Regulatory investigations 
• Internal investigations 
• Attorney general inquiries 
• Corporate responsibility 
• Crisis management 
• Governance best-practice development
• Executive compensation and employee benefits
• Leadership transitions
• Mergers and acquisitions/affiliations/joint ventures
• IRS reporting
• Bylaws and policy development
• Board assessments and retreats