Steven L. Pottle

• Counsel to Navicent Health Inc. in its $1+ billion member substitution with Atrium Health Inc.
• Counsel to Avanos Medical (formerly Halyard Health Inc.) in its $710 million sale of its surgical and infection prevention business to Owens & Minor (OMI), and in its $174 million purchase of private-equity backed CORPAK Medsystems Inc.
• Counsel to Memorial Health University Medical Center in its $700+ million sale transaction with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).
• Counsel to an independent board committee of Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross, Georgia, in a simultaneous unwind with Mayo Clinic and sale transaction with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).
• Counsel to First Cash Financial Services Inc. (FC) in its $2.7 billion merger of equals with Cash America International Inc. (CAI) and listing on the NYSE.
• Counsel to Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) in its $575 million sale to WellStar Health System of Atlanta-area hospitals Atlanta Medical Center, North Fulton Hospital, Spalding Regional Hospital, and Sylvan Grove Hospital, and related physician clinics.
• Counsel to The Schumacher Group, a leading provider of outsourced emergency and hospital medicine clinical staffing and other health care advisory services, in a recapitalization with Onex Corporation (TSX:OCX).
• Counsel to Avanos Medical (formerly Halyard Health Inc.) in its $1.7 billion tax-free spinoff from Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
• Counsel to Harden Healthcare Holdings Inc., a portfolio company of Capstar Partners and KKR, in a tax-free merger with Gentiva Health Services Inc. (GTIV) valued at $410 million and related spinoff of Harden’s long-term care business to its shareholders.
• Counsel to Ambulatory Services of America Inc., a portfolio company of Lindsay Goldberg and MedCare Investment Funds, in the sale of its dialysis business to U.S. Renal Care Inc., a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, and related sale of ASA’s radiation oncology business to Vantage Oncology LLC, a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital Partners.
• Counsel to TechHealth Inc., a leading provider of workers’ compensation and occupational health, in its sale to One Call Care Management Inc., a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners.

Steve Pottle represents clients in a wide range of complex corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures, restructurings, spinoffs, and formation transactions. He represents a variety of business organizations (public, private, not-for-profit, domestic, and foreign), their boards and financial sponsors and advisors in numerous industries. He has counseled multibillion-dollar international companies, as well as Fortune 100 corporations. 

Steve’s leadership positions with the firm have included chair of the Health Care Group, co-chair of the Technology Group, chair of the Life Sciences Task Force, and founding member of the Corporate Health Care practice area. 

He is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America^©, “Top Legal Deal Makers” in Atlanta Business Chronicle, Super Lawyers magazine, Who's Who Legal, and the Guide to Leading Healthcare Lawyers–U.S. Steve is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

While at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Steve was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Before law school, he completed the CPA exam and was a professional accountant with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young). While at the University of Washington, he also attended foreign study programs in Tokyo and London.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1987)
• University of Washington (B.A., 1983)