Profile

Alex Ahlbrandt concentrates her practice in the areas of healthcare and corporate law. Alex works with healthcare providers, both in the nonprofit and for-profit spaces, through various transactional events, including mergers and acquisitions, membership substitutions, asset transfers, affiliations, and reorganizations, as well as the accompanying regulatory filings and structuring involved in healthcare transactions. In her transactional practice, she represents hospitals and health systems, long-term care providers, personal care and home health providers, ambulatory surgical centers, behavioral health providers, and professional trade associations. She also counsels clients on regulatory compliance including HIPAA compliance, fraud and abuse, medical staff issues and other regulatory matters. Her corporate practice includes advising clients through mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and structuring, contract negotiations, entity formation and other general corporate matters

Outside of her work with the firm, Alex proudly serves as a director and secretary on the Board of Directors of Jessica & Friends Community, a faith-based nonprofit based in York, Pa., that provides services to individuals with intellectual disabilities.

EDUCATION

Temple University, magna cum laude, B.A.

Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University, cum laude, J.D.

    • Student Bar Association, Vice President and President
    • Drexel Law Review, Associate Editor
    • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), legal intern

MEMBERSHIPS

American Bar Association, Health Law Section

Pennsylvania Bar Association

York County Bar Association

Dauphin County Bar Association

York County Economic Alliance (YCEA) and the Women’s Business Center Organization (WBCO)

EXPERIENCE/REPRESENTATIVE CASES

  • Represented longtime independent hospital client in its acquisition by WellSpan Health
  • Represented longtime client in the acquisition, growth and eventual sale of its multi-facility drug and alcohol rehab business to a private equity buyer
  • Represented physician groups in their sale of their respective surgery centers to private equity-backed buyer
  • Represented longtime hospital client in the acquisition of hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies/durable medical equipment suppliers.