Robert L. Schuchard

Robert L. Schuchard concentrates his practice primarily in the health care industry, advising clients on general business, mergers and acquisitions, governance and board relations, joint ventures, contracts, and financing matters. His extensive experience includes many high-profile health care merger and affiliation transactions.

Bob also draws on his diverse transactional and commercial practice to advise clients in other industries, including education, insurance, trade associations, social service organizations and equipment maintenance.

Practice Highlights:

• Advising clients in the purchase and sale of businesses, mergers and management agreements, corporate governance and executive compensation in diverse industries, including manufacturing, service, insurance and health care
• Advising numerous hospitals, health care systems and physician groups in general corporate, governance, corporate structure, contracts with top executives, commercial and health care matters
• Representing clients before the charitable trust division of the California Attorney General’s office
• General corporate and commercial matters, including loan transactions, corporate structure, negotiating agreements for equipment and real property sales and leases, commercial joint ventures and structuring and negotiating general and limited partnerships and limited liability companies
• Advising nonprofit health care facilities and systems and other charitable organizations, with particular focus on the corporate, fiduciary duty, tax and charitable trust issues facing such organizations

Additional Qualifications:

• Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Los Angeles
• Partner, Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, Los Angeles

Professional & Community Activities:

• Board of Directors, The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health
• Past Chair, Committee on Nonprofit and Unincorporated Organizations, State Bar of California
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Business Law Section, State Bar of California
• Previously served on the Board of Directors, Public Counsel

Education:

• J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, 1977
  • Business Editor, Santa Clara Law Review
• B.A., Political Science, Stanford University, 1974