Tom Stephenson

Tom Stephenson is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Orlando office and a member of the Legal Services Transactions Team and Healthcare Transactions Team. Mr. Stephenson focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the legal services and healthcare industries.

In the legal services sector, Mr. Stephenson helps clients form de novo law firms and management services organizations (MSOs), restructure existing law firms and MSOs, and complete M&A transactions, bolt-on expansions and recapitalizations. He also advises artificial intelligence (AI)-native law firms and technology-enabled legal service providers on how to structure their businesses. In these matters, he guides clients through regulatory and compliance issues specific to the legal services industry.

Additionally, in the healthcare sector, Mr. Stephenson represents clients in buy-side and sell-side M&A, joint ventures, dispositions and private equity investments. His clients include hospitals, physician group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, pharmacies (retail, mail-order and specialty), behavioral health providers, dental group practices and dental services organizations (DSOs), optometry and ophthalmology group practices, and medical spa platforms. As part of this work, he helps clients comply with state healthcare transaction reporting and monitoring laws.