Samantha Prokop

Overview

Samantha Prokop serves as head of Gunster’s Healthcare Transactions team. In her counsel to corporate and healthcare companies, Sam serves as an advisor to clients establishing new businesses, executing mergers and acquisitions and navigating business disputes and break-ups.

Sam has served as a risk manager and general counsel for a multi-location hospital system. Through her range of experience, Sam aims to help her clients remove barriers to develop practical, workable solutions to their complex problems, addressing immediate issues while developing long-term strategies for growth.

A focus on healthcare regulatory compliance

Clients reach out to Sam for help dealing with regulatory compliance matters including structuring arrangements to comply with the federal Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Florida Patient Self-Referral Act, Florida Patient Brokering Act, and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, as well as evaluating these laws as part of acquisitions.

Sam’s representative clients include:

Applying a focused, solutions-oriented approach aimed at advancing our clients’ businesses

From a corporate perspective, Sam represents clients in a variety of industries seeking to establish new businesses by developing structures that attract new investors, owners, partners and talent.

She supports clients in reviewing and negotiating contracts and employment agreements, establishing executive compensation arrangements and drafting operating agreements, partnership agreements, shareholders’ agreements, buy-sell agreements and bylaws.

From the letter of intent through closing, Sam assists clients with mergers, sales and acquisitions including handling day-to-day business disputes both internally and with outside vendors.

Experience

  • Represented related single specialty medical practices in sale to private equity for ~$250M
  • Represented Seller in ~$110M sale of capital stock and control of a Florida-based medical clinic operator and a Florida-based management services organization to a private equity platform buyer
  • Represented Sellers of home health agencies in sales totaling over ~$50M
  • Represented home based primary care practices in equity sales totaling over ~$13M
  • Represented Seller in sale of logistics company for ~$10M
  • Represented FQHC in the purchase of 2 pharmacies
  • Represented physicians in the sale of their stock to a national hospital/surgery center joint venture
  • Represented purchaser in the acquisition and roll up of orthopedic practices incorporating MSO model
  • Represented physician investors in an unwind from a joint venture involving a national ASC investment and management company
  • Represented international manufacturing client to establish businesses in Florida while securing and negotiating exclusive private labeling and distribution contract with large retail company
  • Represented specialty group in the sale of their practice and management company to a private equity firm
  • Represented primary care group in acquisition by private equity group
  • Represented international medical device company in seeking FDA approval for new medical device
  • Represented orthopedic group in arrangement to sell practice to a national group backed by private equity firm

Education

  • University of Akron School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010
  • Baldwin-Wallace University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2006

Admissions

  • Florida, 2014

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