Patrick S. Cross |
Partner
patrick.cross@bakerd.com
Professional Experience
Pat Cross is the chair of Baker & Daniels' health and life sciences practice group, and co-chairs Baker & Daniels' Health Care Reform Task Force. He advises the firm's life sciences, health care and technology clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Pat also helps clients negotiate research and development collaborations, analyze technology transfer and licensing issues, and develop regulatory compliance strategies, including anti-kickback, Stark, Medicare/Medicaid, antitrust, tax-exemption, HIPAA and HITECH compliance. He combines his experience in structuring and negotiating complex corporate transactions with his knowledge of the complicated regulatory environment in which health and life sciences companies operate to provide solid, practical advice to emerging and established companies. Pat has counseled health systems and pharmaceutical and medical device companies on structuring joint ventures and strategic alliances and related licensing arrangements.
Pat is a frequent speaker on corporate governance and health care regulatory matters, including antitrust, Accountable Care Organization, "meaningful use" of electronic health records, clinical integration, joint ventures, health care fraud and abuse, health information technology and corporate compliance issues.
Representative Transactions
- Lead counsel on the integration of regional, multi-hospital system into a major hospital system
- Lead counsel to one of the nation's largest health systems on the creation and funding of dozens of joint ventures, including hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers
- Represented tax-exempt entities in strategic alliances and joint ventures with for-profit health care entities
- Organized new tax-exempt entities to acquire and operate rural community hospitals
- Served as counsel to a strategic alliance organized by some of Indiana's leading public and private health care institutions to develop and operate a groundbreaking regional health information exchange
- Assisted major university technology transfer office with creation of life sciences and technology companies using intellectual property licensed from the university
- Organized a consortium of major universities focused on developing advanced manufacturing processes for the pharmaceutical industry
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law and Health Care Law, 2005-11
- Chambers USA: A Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers — Corporate/M&A, 2005-11
- Indiana Super Lawyers — Health Care, since its first publication in 2004 to 2011
- Dr. John Morton-Finney Excellence in Legal Education Award
- Indianapolis Bar Foundation — Distinguished Fellow
- Indiana Law Journal — Editor-in-Chief
- Order of the Coif
- Indiana Governor's Fellowship
Civic Activities
- Indiana Health Industry Forum — Director (Chair, Public Policy Committee)
- Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council — Membership Chair
- Off-Main Street Players, Inc. — Chairman
- HealthNet Foundation — Former Director and Executive Committee
- NCAA Final Four — Operations Committee
- Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series Graduate
- World Basketball Championships — Local Organizing Committee
- United Way of Central Indiana — Ardath Burkhart Board Leadership Development Series Graduate
- Zionsville Youth Soccer Association — Coach
Professional Associations
- Indianapolis Bar Association — Former Member, Board of Managers and Pro Bono Standing Committee; Former Chair, Health Care Section
- Indiana State Bar Association — Former Chair, Health Care and Medicine Section; House of Delegates
- American Health Lawyers Association