Los Angeles, Ca., USA - August 20, 2009, Los Angeles, Ca., USA - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announces that Kenneth Yood has joined the Los Angeles/Century City and Louis Lehot the Silicon Valley office as partners.
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Kenneth Yood received a J.D. from University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1989, a M.A. in Public Health from Harvard University in 1990 and a B.A. from Haverford College in 1986. He has been recognized as a leading healthcare lawyer in Chambers USA: America's Leading lawyers for Business since 2005.
Mr. Yood joins Sheppard Mullin's Healthcare team and the Corporate practice group from Fulbright & Jaworski in Los Angeles. Mr. Yood represents healthcare providers and healthcare companies, including specialty and general acute hospitals (including local district, nonprofit and for-profit facilities), home health agencies, pharmaceutical vendors, nursing facilities, and health information and management providers.
Mr. Yood has expertise in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and certification, state licensing, and federal regulatory compliance. He also counsels clients on physician referral law limitations, state and federal fraud and abuse issues, and state and federal false claims and program fraud matters. Additionally, Mr. Yood helps clients operate and establish healthcare compliance programs, as well as internal and external investigations of healthcare facilities.
Louis Lehot received a J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 2000 and a B.S.F.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1994. He has joined the Silicon Valley office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice group. Mr. Lehot joins Sheppard Mullin from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in Palo Alto.
Mr. Lehot's recent M&A experience includes advising SiRF Technology in its public stock-for-stock merger with CSR plc, and recent capital markets deal credits include advising the underwriters in Oracle Corporation's $4.5 billion debt financing, in Micron Technology's concurrent public common stock and convertible note offerings and in GLG Partners' convertible note offering. His clients have included technology names such as AOL, Seagate Technology and SiRF Technology, investment banks including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wachovia, as well as leading Bay Area-based financial sponsors. ■