Wells Beckett is a partner and a member of the Health Care and FDA and Corporate practices. He focuses his practice on corporate and business matters in the health care industry, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and corporate governance. Consistently recognized in the areas of Corporate and Health Care law by The Best Lawyers in America® and Super Lawyers, Wells has led and managed billions of dollars’ worth of health care deals in recent years.
Wells has a national practice and has played a pivotal role in guiding clients through some of the most significant and complex transactions in the health care industry, including multistate acquisitions, national joint ventures, and complex mergers. His clients include national health systems, academic medical centers, nonprofit hospitals, and a range of companies and investors across the acute and post-acute care spectrum, including surgery centers, behavioral health, inpatient rehabilitation, telehealth, urgent care, PPM companies, physician practices, SNFs, home health, hospice, and health care technology companies.
Wells has a deep understanding of the specific regulatory and operational challenges facing health care organizations, which enables him to provide insightful and strategic counsel. While Wells has assisted some of the largest health care companies in the US with transformational transactions, he also represents many of his clients in their routine M&A activity and add-on deals, serving as a trusted advisor to clients who are rapidly growing through M&A.