Michelle Williams

Michelle focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. She also advises on corporate governance and medical staff governance in connection with changes of control or ownership. Williams represents clients undergoing CMS, EMTALA, and state surveys, Medicare terminations and regulatory review, and advises on hospital authority law, voluntary disclosures, corporate integrity agreements, and qui tam defense. Since 2012, Michelle has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in healthcare law. Chambers USA has listed Williams as a leading healthcare lawyer since 2008. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Williams was a commissioner on the Advisory Committee on Childhood Vaccines, advising the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. She was a former in-house counsel at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the former Mount Sinai Hospital and has been on-loan in-house counsel to general academic medical centers.