Gerald R. Peters is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and served as Chairman of Latham's National Health Care Practice Group from 1997 - 2005. His practice focuses on business, transactional, regulatory and tax-exemption matters for health care clients, including health care systems, hospitals, physician groups, payers and ancillary service providers. Mr. Peters serves as outside counsel to health care providers and as lead attorney for providers and payers in transactions requiring strategic business planning. His areas of expertise include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, development of integrated health care systems, restructurings and spin-offs, medical practice consolidation, physician group formation, regulatory compliance, contract negotiation, tax-exemption, fraud and abuse and corporate law.
Mr. Peters is ranked in the first tier of California Healthcare Lawyers by Chambers and Partners USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2005-2010. After a nationwide peer-review survey of 24,000 leading attorneys, Mr. Peters was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the Health Care law category. He is also recognized by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the 12 "Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers" for 2008 and 2009.
He was a board member of American Health Lawyers Association (1992-1998 and Executive Committee 1997) and Chairman of the Board of Hospice by the Bay and Hospice of Marin (1996-2007). He is currently a director of both Huckleberry Youth Programs and Hospice by the Bay.
Mr. Peters has published three books on health care business transactions and co-authored four others on various health care topics. He has published numerous articles on health care legal and business issues and has been a frequent speaker in the US for over 20 years.