R. Christopher Raphaely
Pennsylvania
Cozen O'Connor
One Liberty Place
1650 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: (215) 665-2099
Email:
craphaely@cozen.com
Web:
www.cozen.com
Chris provides sophisticated transactional and regulatory counsel to an array of health care providers and investors in the health care industry. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Chris served as deputy general counsel to Jefferson Health System and general counsel to the system’s accountable care organization and captive professional liability insurance companies.
Chris has worked in the health care industry for nearly three decades. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisition, and divestitures transactions for health care clients and the comprehensive regulatory schemes requisite to doing business in the health care space. Chris routinely handles matters involving payer negotiations, payment disputes and contract enforcement, accountable care organizations, management services organization, clinically integrated networks, value based payment arrangements, pharmacy benefit management and third party administrator contracts for self-insured employers, digital health, organizational and governance structures, HIPAA, information privacy and security, tax exemption, Stark Law, fraud and abuse matters, clinical integration, medical staff relations, facility and professional licensing, Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act, and general compliance.
At Jefferson Health System, Chris served as a legal advisor to the system’s board of trustees and executive team and played key roles in Jefferson Health System’s largest and most complex transactions. During his tenure, Chris helped lead the system’s restructuring efforts in 2010 and the separation of its members in 2014, which resulted in the creation of three autonomous and agile health systems.
Prior to joining Jefferson Health System, Chris spent 16 years in private practice representing health care clients in a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, the last seven as a partner of an Am Law 100 law firm’s health law practice group.
Previously, he served as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Widener University School of Law, where he taught health care finance. He earned his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Cozen O’Connor’s cross-disciplinary health care and life sciences team provides comprehensive services in one of the largest, most dynamic, and fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy. The health care and life sciences fields are heavily regulated, and all legal work in this area must be grounded in a specific and sophisticated understanding of applicable laws. We represent and advise companies of all stages that are bringing innovation to the market to achieve better efficiency, accuracy, and outcomes in all aspects of clinical health care. Many of our attorneys hold advanced scientific degrees and have worked at health care and life sciences companies, and we combine this deep industry knowledge with a demonstrated strength across the transactional, regulatory, and litigation areas of the law.
We represent:
- Investors focused on funding in the health care and life sciences industries, including private equity and venture capital firms.
- Businesses in all phases of their company lifecycle, from rapidly growing start-ups to mature public companies.
- Members of the health care sector, including pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health systems, physician group practices and surgical specialties, long-term care facilities, behavioral health providers, accountable care organizations (ACOs), medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers, academic institutions, tissue banks, and insurers.
- Members of the life sciences sector, including drug developers, biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, and health care entrepreneurs.
Founded in 1970, Cozen O’Connor has more than 925 attorneys practicing internationally in 32 cities across North America and Europe. We are a full-service firm with award-winning practices in litigation, business law, and government relations, and our attorneys have experience operating in all sectors of the economy. Our diverse client list includes global Fortune 500 companies, middle-market firms poised for growth, ambitious startups, and high-profile individuals.
In an industry built on talk, Cozen O’Connor has made its name by doing. As one of North America’s fastest-growing law firms, we continue to build our firm one case, one victory at a time. Our attorneys have impeccable academic credentials and are able to combine intellectual rigor with practicality and efficiency. We provide sophisticated, business-minded advice aimed at one simple goal: getting the right result for our clients. Ranked among the top 100 law firms in America, our commitment to excellence has earned us recognition from many legal and business organizations, including Chambers & Partners, The American Lawyer, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers. No matter how complex, contentious, or critical the undertaking, we persevere until the job is done.
What you’ve built, we can defend. What you envision, we can help construct.
“Chris Raphaely cochairs the healthcare practice and offers clients the benefit of significant industry experience. He regularly advises clients on transactional and regulatory matters as well as representing them in litigation.“