Jeanna Palmer Gunville

Background

• Partner, Healthcare Transactions & Regulatory group, Morgan Lewis (Chicago) since July 2025; previously shareholder at Polsinelli.
• J.D. Loyola Chicago (2007); early career as law clerk in the Illinois AG's Health Care Bureau, gives her a regulator's-eye view of enforcement priorities.
• Vice Chair, Academic Medical Centers & Teaching Hospitals Practice Group, American Health Law Association (AHLA).

Current focus

• Structuring M&A, joint ventures, and clinical integration deals for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and post-acute providers.
• Regular counsel to PE-backed healthcare platforms and vendors, including physician practice management roll-ups.
• Active thought leadership on value-based care, service line carveouts, and ACO/CIN governance.

What she cares about

• Building compliant deal structures (Anti-Kickback/Stark) into the transaction from day one rather than retrofitting compliance post-close.
• Nonprofit-to-PE transition dynamics, community benefit obligations, charitable trust/AG review, and governance carryover.
• Service line carveouts and hospital-at-home/telehealth arrangements as emerging platform plays.

Recent moves / sensitivities

• Fresh lateral (2025), still building her Morgan Lewis book; may be more receptive to new deal-flow relationships but also mindful of non-compete/client-transition obligations from Polsinelli.
• Confidential client work: her public bio lists engagement *types*, not named clients. Expect her to speak in generalities about past deals absent a signed NDA.

Questions to ask

1. Which PE-backed provider platforms has she worked with recently on add-on acquisitions, and what deal structures are they gravitating toward in the current rate environment?
2. What state AG/charitable-trust friction points is she seeing on nonprofit health system divestitures right now?
3. Where does she see the next wave of service-line carveout or hospital-at-home JV activity, and which health systems are actively shopping?