Biography
Phil Kim is a Chambers-ranked healthcare attorney who advises providers and industry participants on complex transactional and regulatory matters. He counsels private equity firms, digital health companies, health systems, hospitals, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups (including NPHOs), home health providers, hospices, and other healthcare companies on buy- and sell-side M&A, joint ventures, and operational issues encompassing regulatory, licensure, contractual, and administrative considerations. Phil has led regulatory legal teams on a wide range of healthcare transactions, including some of the most significant multi-billion dollar deals in the sector.
Phil has guided multinational technology companies entering the digital health space through service and collaboration agreements for wearable technologies, and he represents public medical device, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies—as well as their investment bank underwriters—in public securities offerings and related securities filings.
Phil’s experience spans healthcare arrangements and provider agreements of all types, including transitioning hundreds of physicians from a prior group to a new NPHO with a restructured employment model. He negotiates professional services, clinical and educational affiliations, leases, business associate agreements, and other service contracts across private and public sectors.
On the regulatory side, he regularly advises on compliance and liability exposure, the Stark Law, anti-kickback statutes, HIPAA/HITECH privacy, state and federal healthcare laws, complex structuring and formation, and employment issues, and he represents clients before government agencies, including state Medicaid agencies, the Texas Medical Board, and Medicare Administrative Contractors.
Additional Languages
Korean
Education
B.A., with honors, University of Texas at Austin
J.D., cum laude, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- Executive Editor, SMU Science and Technology Law Review
Bar Admissions
Texas
