Megan Nigro’s practice focuses on the transactional and regulatory aspects of healthcare law.
Megan assists healthcare providers, including hospitals and health systems, home health agencies, and physician groups on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, and other affiliations. Megan also advises on healthcare governance and compliance matters, physician contracting, financing transactions, and changes in healthcare law.
Megan’s experience advising on changes in the laws impacting the healthcare industry includes considering the possible impacts of a data privacy lawsuit on regulatory action and internal policy. Megan has written and presented about this topic, including how to evaluate the risks of using tracking technologies on hospital websites and mobile applications. Megan’s experience advising on healthcare compliance includes reviewing contracts with terms to protect patient information or to obtain patient consent.
Outside of healthcare, Megan assists nonprofit organizations, corporations, and schools with strategic transactions, restructuring, and governance, including a variety of tax-exempt bond transactions. Megan has served as bond counsel, bondholder representative’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel in connection with governmental and conduit facility transactions.
Megan attended Seton Hall University School of Law where she was a member of the Health Law Forum, the Cybersecurity & Privacy Society, the First Generation Law Student Association, and the Denis F. McLaughlin Advanced Trial Advocacy Workshop. She served as President of the Health Law Forum and was an editor for the Seton Hall Law Review, which published her Comment, Getting to the Good Place: Implementing New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. Megan also participated in her law school’s Health Justice Clinic, where she prepared an appeal for a veteran’s discharge upgrade. She received the Center for Social Justice Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Health Justice Clinic and an Excellence in Health Law Award. Megan has continued helping veterans through her pro bono work at the firm.
Prior to joining the firm, Megan was a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Mary Gibbons Whipple in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
