Ted Ramirez is a partner in our Washington-based Business Transactions Group. His practice includes the areas of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities distribution, crisis recovery and turnaround, and wealth and succession planning. He also serves as co-chair of Venable's Washington-based Healthcare Transactions Practice and as chair of our Healthcare Public Policy Group.

Mr. Ramirez's thirty years of service to the business community and the health care industry also include experience as director, trustee and chairman or member of governance board committees for strategic planning, finance and audit, and legal affairs. He applies his transactional experience to anticipate, manage and resolve barriers. Mr. Ramirez and our Venable team help clients move transactions through the process of corporate governance, regulatory and industry due diligence, external complex negotiations, and final implementation.

Representative Clients

Mr. Ramirez's clients include national and multinational institutional organizations, hospital systems, and privately held companies.

Significant Matters

On behalf of a large pension fund, concluded the divesture of multi-million dollar equity and debt investments in early growth publicly traded technology companies, combining litigation and risk management as well as myriad corporate securities and business law issues and negotiations.

Concluded 17 successive annual offerings of securities for client through initial rescission, then exemptions and registrations in eight jurisdictions.

Develops and provides management and fiduciary duty standards, systems, policy papers and presentations on corporate governance for multi-corporate organizations.

Developed and implemented a 14-year system affiliation and merger plan with a large healthcare delivery system in the Midwest (eight hospitals, three foundations, 10,000 employees, $1B annual revenue).

Designed and implemented legal structures for manufacturer and academic teaching hospital systems in areas of (i) global affiliations, (ii) development of new institutes and research centers, and (iii) research and transactional alliances with multiple organizations.

Activities

Mr. Ramirez devotes significant pro bono efforts to charitable organizations, having served on boards and committees of university research teaching hospitals, colleges, youth programs and religious organizations. He lectures on the adjunct faculty of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. His article, "Actions by Directors and Officers in Time of Emergency," recommends governance methods for companies to enable their officers and boards to function during declarations of emergency and disruptions in communications and travel.

Mr. Ramirez's other activities and experience include:

• Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University: National Council; Adjunct Faculty
• Loma Linda University and Medical Center - Board: Legal Affairs Committee; Finance Committee; Proton Center Committee Chair (through April, 2006)
• General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: Executive Committee; Financial Audit Review Committee; Nominating Committee (through July, 2005)