About Laura Keidan Martin

Laura Keidan Martin counsels health care providers on their most challenging transactions and compliance issues. She represents hospitals and health systems, ancillary services and post-acute care providers, physician groups and life sciences companies.

Accomplishing strategic business objectives

Ultimately, Laura's work on both transactional and compliance matters paves the way for health care providers to successfully navigate risks while achieving business objectives. Toward that end, she starts with an intimate understanding of their businesses, risk profiles and strategic priorities. This informs everything she does for clients, including structuring complex transactions and advising on compensation arrangements with referral sources. She also regularly helps clients develop clinically integrated networks, navigate high-stakes compliance issues — including government investigations — and proactively reduce regulatory risk through preventative measures like compliance education.

Drawing on years of experience and her knowledge of regulatory pitfalls, Laura provides timely and pragmatic solutions to complex issues. In transactional matters, she quickly identifies options and regulatory risks on her way to developing deal structures that best meet client business objectives. In the compliance space, she helps clients grasp the relevant issues immediately based on experience, without the need for research, and provides a recommended course of action, including corrective action plans and government disclosures where appropriate.

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Practice Focus

  • Health care transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions to strategic affiliations and joint ventures
  • Clinical integration/population health strategies
  • Fraud and abuse
  • Health care marketing practices and physician compensation arrangements
  • Government and internal investigations, including self-disclosures and corporate integrity agreements
  • Compliance program development and gap analysis
  • Antitrust advice, including through state and federal pre-merger reviews

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Education
  • Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude
  • University of Michigan, BA, with high distinction
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
Community Involvements
  • American Bar Association
  • American Health Law Association (AHLA)
  • Children's Research Fund, Board Member
  • Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, Past President
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Board of Trustees
  • Navy Pier, Board of Trustees
Recognitions
Recognized or listed in the following:
  • Best Lawyers in America
    Health Care Law, 2011–2024
    Lawyer of the Year
    Health Care Law, Chicago, 2012
  • Chambers USA
    Healthcare, 2006–2024
  • Crain's Chicago Business
    Chicago's Notable Women Lawyers, 2018
    Notable Women in Law, 2020
  • Harvard Law Society of Illinois
    2015 Role Model
  • Leading Lawyers Network
    Top 10 Leading Women Lawyers, 2013, 2015
    Top 10 Leading Women Business Lawyers, 2013
    Top 10 Leading Women Transactional Business Lawyers, 2013, 2015
    Top 100 Women Lawyers, 2015
    Top 100 Women Business Lawyers, 2015
  • National Law Journal
    Health Care Trailblazer, 2021
  • Super Lawyers
    Illinois, 2005–2018, 2021–2024
  • The Legal 500 United States
    Recommended Attorney, 2017–2021
  • Thomson Reuters
    Stand-out Lawyer, 2024
  • Who's Who in America
  • Who's Who in American Law
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