- Advising a private equity backed dental services organization in numerous acquisitions of dental practices as well as change of ownership and corporate reorganization matters, employment agreements, and other general corporate matters.
- Representing a physician-led national group practice with corporate governance and general business advice, board and committee guidance, and private securities offerings.
- Providing corporate governance updates and best practices to boards of directors and committees for various clients, including a publicly traded medical technology company.
- Representing a large optometry and ophthalmology management company in multiple acquisitions of practices throughout the country, ranging from approximately $1 million to $110 million, as well as providing general counsel and corporate governance services.
- Represented a private health care management services company in multiple securities offerings.
- Represented a large medical services company in its restructuring, recapitalization, and establishment of a $125 million credit facility.
- Represented a national health services firm in its $32 million acquisition of an endoscopic management services company.
- Represented a large ambulatory services company in its $150 million acquisition of a dialysis company and 23 joint ventures and a $75 million private equity investment.
- Represented a sports event company in its $230 million sale to a private equity firm.
- Represented a publicly traded home health and hospice company in several acquisitions of and joint ventures with home health and hospice agencies and long-term acute care hospitals.
Kara Williamson
Senior Attorney,
- Phone: +1 404 881 4406
- Email: kara.williamson@alston.com
Kara uses her health care and corporate knowledge to help her clients quickly identify and resolve the issues they face. Health care industry clients trust her to get the job done with her practical, results-driven approach, and consider her a key part of their team.
- Represented a hospital system in the acquisition of several physician practices.
- Represented a national health services firm in an equity financing and the acquisition of several health care service companies, including a perfusion services company and a surgical first assist services company.
- Represented a printing and technology company in the sale of its business to a public company for approximately $40 million.
- Represented an online payment provider in the sale of its business for approximately $5 million.
- Represented an email marketing software provider in the sale of its business for $2.7 million.
- Represented a tourism/event company in a corporate restructuring, including the sale of preferred stock and the conversion of $11 million of existing indebtedness into preferred stock.
- Represented a SaaS provider in the exclusive license of its source code to a global manufacturing company for $2 million and negotiated the related services agreement.
Kara Williamson is a senior attorney with Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group. Kara’s practice includes representing publicly traded and private health care corporations in a wide range of general matters, including debt and equity financings, securities filings, and mergers and acquisitions.
She was also an attorney at a corporate and intellectual property law firm representing clients in various corporate transactions.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Kara for Healthcare (GA) since 2021. Kara received her J.D., cum laude, in 2007 from Georgia State University College of Law, where she served as an officer of the Association of Women Law Students every year, including as its president 2006–2007. Kara earned her B.A., cum laude, in 1999 from Agnes Scott College, where she was a member of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society and the Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society.
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Education
- Georgia State University (J.D., 2007)
- Agnes Scott College (B.A., 1999)