Mrs. Cloud concentrates her practice on assisting health care organizations in a variety of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters. She assists clients throughout all phases of the timeline of transactions, from due diligence to closing. Her clients include a variety of entities in the health care industry, such as hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health facilities, and physician-owned practices.
Mrs. Cloud has experience in hospital and physician practice acquisitions, physician compensation and compensation models, hospital-physician alignment and affiliation structures, joint ventures, and physician-hospital organizations. She also handles mergers and acquisitions, health care tax exemption issues for hospitals and other exempt organizations, private offerings and securities compliance matters, as well as corporate, limited liability company, and partnership matters. Her practice also includes business, corporate, and federal and state health care regulatory compliance matters for exempt, governmental, or for-profit health care providers. This includes the Stark law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, civil monetary penalties, and the corporate practice of medicine. Additionally, she also has experience researching and advising organ procurement organizations on federal and state regulatory and compliance issues, analysis and implication of proposed rules, and other distinct legal matters.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Mrs. Cloud served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Leslie H. Southwick of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. During law school, she was a legal extern to U.S. District Court Judge Kristi H. Johnson for the Southern District of Mississippi.