david g. cleveland

Dave Cleveland is known for guiding hospitals through corporate growth and change. Throughout his 35-year career, Dave has helped innumerable hospitals and other healthcare entities of all sizes negotiate and close acquisitions, restructurings, financings, and divestitures. His leadership and business-focused approach ensures that the transactions his clients undertake are smooth and efficient.

Deeply knowledgeable about the special issues raised by healthcare combinations, Dave’s work covers all manner of hospital ventures. These include hospital acquisitions, development of hospital/physician joint ventures, structuring managed care networks and integrated delivery systems, and establishing institutes of excellence, including heart institutes. Dave also assists his hospital clients to develop primary care strategies and obtain private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service approving the implementation of multi-entity healthcare systems. In structuring all such ventures, Dave brings experience in evaluating tax-exemption and Medicare fraud and abuse principles.

Dave is passionate about helping his clients achieve their objectives. His wide range of experience helps him identify issues early in the transaction process and steer the deal to the right outcome. And with his responsive, calming communication style, Dave is uniquely skilled at building the rapport and trust required to not only close deals, but have the parties look forward to working with each other again.