Laura Keidan Martin

Laura Keidan Martin is the National Chair of Katten's Health Care Practice and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Her broad-based health care practice includes mergers and acquisitions, physician integration strategies, provider joint ventures and regulatory compliance. She counsels hospitals, device manufacturers, national ancillary service providers, management companies, MCOs, private equity funds and a variety of other health care clients, helping them structure their affiliations, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, marketing practices and physician compensation arrangements to meet state and federal regulatory requirements. She regularly assists clients with Government and internal investigations arising from Anti Kickback Statute, Stark Act, billing/coding and False Claims Act allegations and counsels clients on compliance with Corporate Integrity and Deferred Prosecution agreements.

Ms. Martin’s antitrust practice extends from health care clients to clients in high-tech and manufacturing industries. In addition to helping clients structure their operations, acquisitions and joint venture arrangements to minimize antitrust risk, Ms. Martin has represented numerous clients in their pre-merger reviews before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Ms. Martin has delivered speeches at numerous national forums on a variety of topics, including the antitrust risks of health care joint ventures, corporate compliance and hot topics in health care law. More recently, she has spoken on the potential impact of health care reform on various health care sectors.

Ms. Martin is a member of the Chicago Bar, American Bar and American Health Lawyers Associations and the Illinois Association of Health Care Attorneys. She is a past president of the Illinois Association of Health Attorneys, served for five years on the IAHA Board of Directors and chaired the Antitrust Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association (2004–2005). Ms. Martin has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2006–2011) for both health care and antitrust, and in Marquis Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, Crain’s Chicago Business Top Health Lawyers, Illinois Super Lawyers (2005–2012) and The Best Lawyers in America (2011–2012). Ms. Martin was selected as Best Lawyers' 2012 Lawyer of the Year for Chicago Health Care Law. She also was named one of the “Top 50 Women Business Lawyers in Illinois” by Leading Lawyers Network.

Ms. Martin earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, with High Distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1986. She then attended Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude in 1989. She is admitted to practice in Illinois (1989).