Jenny Shealy

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      Partner

Practice Areas

Corporate Governance

General Counsel Services

Healthcare Compliance & Operations

Healthcare Government Investigations & Litigation

Healthcare Transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Non-Profit Organizations

Taxable & Tax Exempt Entities

Jenny F. Shealy represents health care providers and tax-exempt organizations on wide-ranging regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding tax-exempt healthcare organizations. She regularly advises clients on ways to structure transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations.

Shealy provides strategic and practical advice regarding various hospital/physician transactions including employment and independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements with a focus on minimizing the compliance risks caused by extensive and complex regulatory requirements governing the healthcare industry.

She advises various types of tax-exempt organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code and assists tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues.  Shealy also provides tax-exempt organizations with guidance regarding bylaws and corporate governance, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality-related issues.

Education

• New York University, LLM, Taxation (2002)
  • Graduate editor of the New York University Tax Law Review
• University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, magna cum laude (2001)
  • The Order of the Coif
  • Phi Delta Phi
  • Order of Wig and Robe
  • Associate Articles Editor, South Carolina Law Review
  • Received Arthur B. Custy Tax Law Award
  • Received CALI awards for constitutional law and federal practice
• University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business, Master of Business Administration (2001)
• Wofford College, BA, Government and Accounting, summa cum laude (1997)
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• South Carolina