BUFFALO, N.Y. – February 9, 2021 – Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP announced today that it has named attorney Lauren A. Suttell as team leader of the firm’s Not-For-Profit Practice Team. Lippes Mathias’ Not-For-Profit Practice Team has extensive experience representing a variety of tax-exempt organizations nationally, including research institutions and educational organizations, family foundations, hospitals and health care systems foundations, charitable organizations and religious institutions.

Lauren provides corporate and regulatory counsel to health care providers, including health systems, hospitals, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, home care agencies, and individual practitioners. She helps clients find practical and meaningful solutions for a variety of health care transactions, relationships, operational transitions, and compliance matters. Her experience includes health care provider affiliations and joint ventures, acquisitions and sales of medical practices, formation and organization of an accountable care organization, medical practice management arrangements, practitioner employment arrangements, and HIPAA compliance. Lauren works regularly to help health care providers achieve their business goals in a manner that complies with health law requirements, while optimizing the quality of and access to health care for patients in the community.

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Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 120 attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Albany and New York, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately-owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals.