Bio
Christina is a member of the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions; Private Equity, Capital Markets & Securities; and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups. She focuses on complex corporate transactions with an emphasis on private equity and has extensive experience representing clients investing and operating within the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Christina advises private equity sponsors, family offices, portfolio companies, growth-stage businesses, joint ventures, and small- to mid-sized companies on a broad range of transactions, including platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, recapitalizations, and restructuring. She has extensive experience representing clients on both the buy side and sell side of middle market and lower middle market transactions.
In addition to her focus on private equity transactions, Christina counsels clients through transformative events, general corporate governance, day-to-day operational matters, and regulatory challenges. In the healthcare and life sciences space, she provides integrated advice on healthcare regulatory issues that commonly arise in transactional contexts, including compliance with the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, corporate practice of medicine doctrines, and other federal and state healthcare regulations. This combined transactional and regulatory background allows Christina to deliver practical, business-oriented counsel that addresses both the deal dynamics and the regulatory complexities unique to the healthcare and life sciences sectors.
Prior Experience
Before joining DarrowEverett, Christina practiced in the Boston office of a national law firm. Earlier in her legal career, Christina served as Associate General Counsel for a publicly traded healthcare corporation.
Practice Areas
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of International Trade
Education
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D.
- Suffolk University Sawyer School of Business, MBA
- Bates College, B.S., Economics
Representative Matters
- Represented a private equity-backed MSO in its acquisition of the clinical and non-clinical assets of multiple pediatric medical practices across multiple states as part of a roll-up strategy. I provided substantial post-transaction support with respect to corporate governance, corporate organizational matters, compliance, liability, employment matters, and the corporate practice of medicine.
- Represented a private equity-backed MSO in its restructuring and consolidation and in the simultaneous acquisition of clinical assets from optometry practices across several states, while advising on corporate practice of medicine considerations.
- Represented an international private equity-backed dental support organization in its attempted acquisition of the clinical and non-clinical assets of multiple dental practice entities, including advising on lease-related matters.
- Represented a surgical specialty practice network in its sale to a private equity-backed oncology network.
- Represented a private equity-backed MSO in its attempted acquisition of the clinical and non-clinical assets of multiple primary care practices as part of a roll-up strategy. I also advised client regarding multiple lease-related matters and Anti-Kickback concerns.
- Represented a private equity-backed MSO in its acquisition of dermatology practices across multiple states.
- Represented the private equity arm of a global asset manager and an international pension plan in their partnered acquisition of a majority stake in a life sciences R&D compliance and technology solutions provider.
- Represented a private equity firm in its establishment of a joint venture holding company, investment aggregator, and operating company in partnership with one of its portfolio companies for the purpose of establishing a network of clinical laboratories, including advising on matters relating to the Stark Law.
- Represented a concierge-style medical care network in a compelled partial stock sale.
- Represented a private equity-backed physical therapy network in its restructuring in preparation for a sale.
- Represented a waste-to-resource company in its Series A-1 offering.
- Represented a direct primary care practice in amending and restating its operating agreement in order to bring on a new physician equity member, including advising on lease-related matters.
- Represented healthcare services holding company in divesting multiple portfolio companies, each a free-standing joint venture partnership across multiple states, while advising on financing matters.
- Represented a healthcare services holding company in facilitating multiple equity transfers of membership interests in its free-standing joint venture partnerships across multiple states, while advising on Stark, Anti-Kickback, state-level physician self-referral laws, loan financing, and lease-related matters.
- Represented a publicly-traded real estate investment trust in its acquisition of 11,448 wireless communications sites.