Williams, Walter L.

Category: Business

Review: Fax:(304) 624-8183 Walter.Williams@Steptoe-Johnson.com

Description: Walter Williams concentrates his practice in health care and business transactions, particularly in business transactions involving health care providers, both for profit and tax-exempt. Mr. Williams also counsels clients with respect to acquisitions, financings, confidentiality issues (including HIPAA), medical staff and bylaws issues, medical records, licensure, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, self-referral limitations, health care contracting, managed care, compliance, and general health care issues. He has drafted contracts and other documentation and handled closings, and has also provided legal services to municipal and other public bodies, including tax-exempt public and private financings. Mr. Williams serves as leader of the firm’s Health Care Team.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Provided legal services in connection with the sale and lease of property for the development of medical office buildings as part of a new hospital campus, and assisted in the sale of property, with restrictions, to a local municipality for the development of a police and fire substation on the campus
Assisted in the sale of assets of a substantial independent and assisted living facility and related nursing home, and that necessitated the defeasance of publicly held tax-exempt indebtedness
Assisted in the closure of a small hospital facility and with the plans and financing for the adaptive health care reuse of the facility; provided legal services in connection with the possible restructuring of the corporate relationships of the parent organization and affiliates that included this same facility
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Health care
Acquisitions and sales
Business organizations
Contracts (recruiting, employment and other)
Financings
Privacy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1980 Steptoe & Johnson

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Health Lawyers Association
Co-Chair, West Virginia State Bar, Law and Medicine Committee
Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
INDUSTRY/ CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

Board of Directors and former Chairman, Harrison County Chamber of Commerce
Health Committee, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Former President, Clarksburg Industrial Development Corporation
Former President and Campaign Chairman, United Way of Harrison County
United Health Foundation Board
Trustee for Clarksburg-Harrison Library Trust
AWARDS / HONORS

The Best Lawyers in America®
Super Lawyers®
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

State Bar MCLE, Advance Directives, June, 2008
WV Hospital Association Compliance Officer Committee – Stark Update, January, 2008
State Bar MCLE – Advance Directives, December, 2007