Amanda Hayes helps health care and life sciences clients close mergers and acquisitions and build strategic collaborations. Clients rely on her for responsive, creative advice grounded in a deep understanding of their heavily regulated industries. She leads Parker Poe's Health Care Practice Group, which Chambers USA has ranked among the leading teams in the Carolinas based on in-depth interviews with top legal decision-makers.
Amanda regularly serves as lead counsel on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, guiding clients through deal structuring, due diligence, drafting, negotiation, and closing. She has advised on dozens of transactions involving clinical laboratories, physician practices, behavioral health agencies, and home health and other post-acute and long-term care providers. Her experience with mergers and acquisitions extends to other industries as well, such as manufacturing, retail, and construction.
Amanda has also helped life sciences and health care clients create a variety of unique, strategic collaborations. For example, she has advised on high-profile and time-sensitive alliances to launch new laboratory tests, bring complementary care to pharmacies across the country, and leverage clinical decision support tools, artificial intelligence (AI), and data to help physicians better serve their patients.
Across her practice, Amanda counsels clients on structuring business relationships to comply with regulatory requirements. This counseling includes organizational structuring, corporate governance, buy-sell arrangements, compensation plans, and material contract review and negotiation.