About Ashley Francois

Ashley Francois helps health care companies and investors turn complex regulations into clear, actionable deal strategies. She guides clients through structuring, negotiating and completing transactions while navigating the federal and state requirements that drive execution and post-closing results. Ashley is focused on helping deals progress efficiently and with fewer surprises.

Helping businesses maintain corporate health

With experience across provider platforms and health care technology businesses, Ashley blends deal goals with practical, business-ready compliance advice tailored to industry realities, helping stakeholders align on risk, timing and value.

Ashley's transactional work includes mergers and acquisitions and other strategic combinations involving management services organizations (MSOs), physician practices and other provider organizations. She is skilled at coordinating legal, operational and regulatory workstreams to keep deals moving, reduce execution risk and close on time.

Ashley advises buyers, sellers and private equity-backed platforms on transaction design and integration, with a focus on aligning corporate structures with applicable health care regulations to support scalable growth post-closing. She also represents private credit investors and direct lenders financing health care platforms, helping with diligence, allocating regulatory risk and structuring covenants that address licensure, reimbursement and privacy considerations.

Practice Focus

  • Corporate
  • Health Care

Publications

Quick Reads

Presentations and Events

  • October 26, 2021
    ORCHSE Strategies Meeting
    Presenter | Legal Consideration When Using Artificial Intelligence: Health Care as a Case Study
Practices
Education
  • Washington University in St. Louis, JD
  • Boise State University, BS
Bar Admissions
  • Texas