Eric White

Eric is the assistant leader of Dykema’s Corporate Finance Practice Group and a member of the Dental Service Organizations Group. He is experienced in DSO transactions and assists private equity groups, lenders and other investors in buying and selling DSOs and their affiliated practices and providing financing for such transactions. Eric represents DSO clients across the United States.

In his career of nearly two decades, Eric has worked on a number of significant dental and practice finance transactions on behalf of buyers, sellers, lenders and potential investors. He counsels DSOs, investors and practice owners on sophisticated dental business issues, including regulatory compliant DSO and practice ownership structures and governance, and best practices regarding loan structures.

Eric also specializes in the preparation of regulatory compliant business agreements between DSOs and their affiliated practices and professionals, as well as other third parties.

Gerald T. Lievois

Jerry is a member of Dykema’s Corporate Finance Practice Group and Dental Service Organizations Group. He is experienced in DSO mergers and acquisitions, and assists private equity groups, other investors and their portfolio companies in DSO acquisition transactions.

Over the last few years, Jerry has worked on a number of significant DSO acquisition transactions. He also counsels DSOs in the preparation of regulatory compliant business agreements between DSOs and their affiliated practices and professionals.

Virgil Ochoa

Virgil Ochoa is an attorney in Dykema’s Dental Service Organizations Group as well as the Business Services Group, where he focuses his practice on dental service organizations, corporate finance matters and international trade law. Mr. Ochoa regularly advises clients on a wide array of corporate matters, including creating regulatory compliant business models, assisting investors in buying, selling or investing in Dental Service Organizations, assisting dentists in selling their practices, and assisting Dental Service Organizations in affiliating with dental practices.

Craig Woods

Craig is a member of Dykema’s Dental Service Organizations Group with a focus on DSO Business Agreements and government and regulatory investigations and litigation. He has considerable experience advising DSOs, MSOs, large practice groups, dentists and other health care providers in various corporate and regulatory matters, including the preparation of regulatory compliant business agreements between DSOs and their affiliated practices and dentists. Craig also brings more than 10 years of substantive regulatory litigation experience in complex commercial, business and health care law where he has advised and represented Fortune 500 and industry-leading dental, medical and health care companies.

Eric S. Klein

Eric is is a member in Dykema’s Bloomfield Hills office, and is the leader of Dykema’s Health Care Practice Group and a member of the Dental Service Organizations Industry Group. Eric devotes his practice to representing clients in the health care sector with respect to corporate and regulatory issues, including hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), dental service organizations (DSOs), hospice providers and home health agencies. In particular, Eric counsels such clients on compliance and reimbursement issues as well as health facility and physician practice acquisitions and other changes of ownership, including related licensure and Medicare/Medicaid certification matters. Eric also advises clients on structuring businesses and transactions to achieve client objectives while addressing anti-kickback, Stark and other legal restrictions.

After college, Eric worked for Health Net, Inc., a health insurance company, in its contract analysis department, where he created financial models to evaluate hospital, physician group, and ancillary contracts.

Serj Moordaian

Serj Mooradian represents healthcare clients on complex regulatory, transactional, and tax matters. Serj counsels clients on mergers and acquisitions, structuring joint ventures and other affiliations, and forming practice management organizations. He also guides clients through the regulatory issues related to the transactions.

Serj advises clients on an array of federal and state regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse laws, Medicare and Medicaid certification, HIPAA, tax exemption, corporate practice of medicine, fee splitting, licensing, and provider scope of practice. He also helps clients resolve reimbursement issues with both governmental and commercial payors.

Serj takes pride in getting to know a client’s business, understanding and analyzing the client’s particular business and legal situation, identifying and prioritizing risks, and navigating the client through many layers of state and federal regulation to minimize those risks. He is adept at breaking down complex problems and helping clients come up with practical, workable solutions.

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Kathleen A. Reed

Kathleen is a member of Dykema’s Health Care Practice Group and Dental Service Organizations Group. She has broad experience in the federal and state regulation of pharmacy and drug control and resale issues, fraud and abuse, scope of practice, licensure and regulatory matters, and patient care issues.

Kathleen is also a registered nurse who has significant experience working in both the clinical and business office aspects of dental practices.

Eric S. Klein

Eric is is a member in Dykema’s Bloomfield Hills office, and is the leader of Dykema’s Health Care Practice Group and a member of the Dental Service Organizations Industry Group. Eric devotes his practice to representing clients in the health care sector with respect to corporate and regulatory issues, including hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), dental service organizations (DSOs), hospice providers and home health agencies. In particular, Eric counsels such clients on compliance and reimbursement issues as well as health facility and physician practice acquisitions and other changes of ownership, including related licensure and Medicare/Medicaid certification matters. Eric also advises clients on structuring businesses and transactions to achieve client objectives while addressing anti-kickback, Stark and other legal restrictions.

After college, Eric worked for Health Net, Inc., a health insurance company, in its contract analysis department, where he created financial models to evaluate hospital, physician group, and ancillary contracts.

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Victor C. Johnson

Victor is a member of Dykema’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and Dental Service Organizations Group.

Victor assists DSO clients with all types of intellectual property litigation and prosecution matters, including patent, trademark and copyright infringement; unfair competition and theft of trade secret litigation; securing trademarks and patents with the USPTO; and securing copyrights with the Copyright Office. He also assists DSO clients on intellectual property due diligent matters, including validity and non-infringement opinions; advice on designing around patents; and negotiating and licensing of IP rights.

Eric T. Fingerhut

Eric is the Leader of Dykema’s Trademark Practice Group and a member of the Dental Service Organization Group.

Ranked as a First Tier trademark lawyer by the World Trademark Review, Eric has significant experience representing Dental Service Organizations in clearing new marks and logos, registering trademarks, copyrighting proprietary information on practice development, and protecting trademarks, trade dress and web domain names through applicable legal proceedings. He has spent considerable time registering and maintaining catalogues of Dental Industry specific trademarks and copyrights for a variety of DSOs. Eric has significant experience in filing trademark and copyright infringement lawsuits, and trademark opposition and cancellation actions to protect Dental Industry Company brands. Recently, he successfully represented ClearChoice in an opposition it filed with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The case pitted ClearChoice’s CLEARCHOICE mark against an application to register the mark REAL CHOICE. He also regularly appears before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in connection with internet domain name disputes.

Zachary Hoard

Zack is a member of Dykema’s Business Litigation Group and Dental Service Organizations Group. He has successfully represented clients in several state dental board actions and traditional litigation disputes regarding allegations of the corporate practice of dentistry, fee splitting and related violations.

Zack also has considerable experience in filing trademark and copyright infringement lawsuits, and trademark opposition and cancellation actions to protect Dental Industry Company brands.

Kyle Owens

Kyle focuses his practice on consumer-financial-regulatory guidance and business and consumer-financial litigation and arbitration. Clients look to Kyle for helping successful businesses and individuals resolve conflicts and comply with their legal obligations. He has extensive experience working with clients in the Dental Service Organizations and the Financial Services industries.

Before joining Dykema, Kyle was Associate General Counsel at a Top 10 U.S. bank and its lead lawyer for multiple lines of business. In that role, he partnered with its executive teams and served as a legal, regulatory, and risk-management counselor to all levels of the business. Kyle has deep experience providing practical guidance to financial institutions regarding the laws and regulations applying to them. Among other areas, he has advised lenders regarding the Truth in Lending Act/Reg Z, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act/Reg B, Fair Lending, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, E-SIGN, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, UDAAP, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act.

Before going in-house, Kyle practiced complex commercial litigation and arbitration at a large international law firm. In addition to advising banks, lenders, and securities firms on various matters, he has litigated, arbitrated, and negotiated resolutions in a wide range of disputes in Texas and beyond, including contract, lending, securities, investment, insurance, probate, and trust matters. Kyle has arbitrated multiple disputes before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the American Arbitration Association, and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution.

Jonathan S. Feld

Jonathan Feld is the Leader of Dykema’s Government Investigations and Corporate Compliance Team and a member of the Dental Service Organizations Group.

Jonathan’s practice focuses on complex civil and criminal matters, including antitrust, health care fraud, financial and antibribery actions. He represents companies, directors and officers in investigations and enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory agencies. Jonathan advises corporations, boards of directors and board committees regarding internal investigations, corporate compliance programs and corporate governance issues, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and data privacy. He formerly served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the DOJ.

Eric S. Klein

Eric is is a member in Dykema’s Bloomfield Hills office, and is the leader of Dykema’s Health Care Practice Group and a member of the Dental Service Organizations Industry Group. Eric devotes his practice to representing clients in the health care sector with respect to corporate and regulatory issues, including hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), dental service organizations (DSOs), hospice providers and home health agencies. In particular, Eric counsels such clients on compliance and reimbursement issues as well as health facility and physician practice acquisitions and other changes of ownership, including related licensure and Medicare/Medicaid certification matters. Eric also advises clients on structuring businesses and transactions to achieve client objectives while addressing anti-kickback, Stark and other legal restrictions.

After college, Eric worked for Health Net, Inc., a health insurance company, in its contract analysis department, where he created financial models to evaluate hospital, physician group, and ancillary contracts.

Richard Lieberman

Rich is a member of the Firm’s Tax Practice Group. With more than 30 years of broad transactional and structuring experience, Mr. Lieberman concentrates his practice on the use of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, restructurings, mergers and financing transactions. He also advises Dykema’s clients, including those in the DSO space, on tax issues related to executive compensation arrangements, including designing and advising on the implementation of executive, equity and deferred compensation programs.

Rich has substantial experience in the formation of joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and interests in joint ventures. He also represents not-for-profit organizations in obtaining and retaining exemption from federal, state and local taxes, avoiding unrelated business income tax, and addressing private inurement and intermediate sanctions issues. He has long-represented both businesses and individuals before the Internal Revenue Service and state Departments of Revenue.

Elizabeth Voss

Elizabeth is a member of Dykema’s Labor & Employment Group and Dental Service Organizations Industry Group, and practices in the areas of employment litigation, employment counseling, wage and hour issues, non-compete, and unfair competition and trade secrets.

Elizabeth has represented DSOs, medical and dental practices, physicians and dentists in employment disputes pending in state and federal court, as well as before state and federal agencies; in connection with drafting and revising employment agreements, personnel policies and handbooks; and in devising strategies for compliance with relevant employment laws and reducing the risk of litigation.  Elizabeth also advises employers with regard to wage and hour compliance, internal investigations of employee complaints, and provides training on employment law compliance.

Leonard C. Wolfe

Len is a member of Dykema’s Government Policy Practice Group and Dental Service Organizations Group. He is also currently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a former Director of the firm’s Regulated Industries Department.

Len’s practice encompasses several areas of legal representation, including general corporate matters, public policy litigation, government reorganization and restructuring, and general administrative law (including representing clients before various state departments, agencies and boards). He has been involved in the drafting of complex legislation and administrative rules on a variety of matters, including compliance and licensing matters, economic development, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state ethics and conflicts of interest. In addition, Len has experience with other governmental matters, including department and agency investigations, Office of Auditor General performance audits and the drafting of Interlocal Agreements, Intergovernmental Transfer Agreements, Executive Orders and Executive Directives, as well as Advisory Opinion requests.