Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

Robert A. Heath is Chair of the Firm's Corporate & Securities Service Team. He concentrates his practice in the various areas of business law, including securities, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and health care law.

Representative Matters

Acquisition of Methodist-Evangelical Hospital and formation of Alliant Health System, Inc.
Acquisition of Arlington International Racecourse, Inc. by Churchill Downs Incorporated
Acquisition of Calder Race Course, Inc. by Churchill Downs Incorporated
Acquisition of Fairgrounds Race Course by Churchill Downs Incorporated
Acquisition of Cohen Fashion Optical by Houchens Industries, Inc.
Corporate reorganization of Group Financial Partners, Inc. with Group Technologies Corporation to form new public corporation Sypris Solutions, Inc.
Churchill Downs Incorporated $80,000,000 underwritten public offering
Sypris Solutions, Inc. $61,000,000 underwritten public offering
Sypris Solutions, Inc. $72,000,000 underwritten public offering

Representative Clients

Churchill Downs Incorporated
Houchens Industries, Inc.
Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Sypris Solutions, Inc.
Trover Solutions, Inc.

Professional Experience

Passed Uniform CPA Examination, 1981

Honors

Recognized by his peers as one of the Kentucky Super Lawyers
Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America® 2007-2010 in the areas of corporate, mergers & acquisitions and securities law
Beta Gamma Sigma, Indiana University Bloomington
Senior Judge, University of Michigan Law School

Education

1984 - J.D, cum laude, University of Michigan

1981 - B.S. (Accounting), with high distinction, Indiana University Bloomington

Seminars

Mr. Heath has lectured on various business law and health care issues.

Publications

"Antitrust Law in Health Care Industry," Kentucky Health Law (5th Ed. 2009 UK/CLE).
"Antitrust Law in Health Care Industry," Kentucky Health Law (4th Ed. 2004 UK/CLE).

Professional Activities and Memberships

Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations
American Health Lawyers Association
2005 Inaugural Class of the Healthcare Fellows of the HealthEnterpriseNetwork/Louisville

Admissions

All Kentucky state courts
United States District Courts for the Western District of Kentucky, Eastern District of Kentucky and District of Columbia
United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the District of Columbia
United States Supreme Court

Civic Involvement

Former Member of School Advisory Committee of Our Lady of Lourdes School
Youth sports coach

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