Mark A. Cotter

Mr. Cotter is a shareholder of Ray Quinney & Nebeker and practices business, corporate, securities, intellectual property and health care transactional law. Although Mr. Cotter represents clients in, and draws his experience from, a wide range of industries, he presently concentrates on two particular industry groups: (1) technology and life sciences businesses and (2) health care providers and suppliers, including physicians, hospitals, and ancillary services providers. Mr. Cotter has advised both entrepreneurs and business entities in all aspects of business formation, growth and development, including corporate structuring, private placements, venture capital financing and SEC compliance, stock options and key employee equity incentive arrangements, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, intellectual property licenses, cooperative development arrangements and related matters. Mr. Cotter's health law practice focuses on physician joint ventures, including physician-hospital joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and health care fraud and abuse compliance (e.g., Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance) and, more particularly, matters related to the formation, development and operation of physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers, imaging facilities, independent diagnostic test facilities, durable medical equipment suppliers, independent physician associations and other health care providers and suppliers.

Mr. Cotter maintains an AV Preeminent (5.0) rating with Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics. He has been included on the list of The Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Law and has also been voted by his peers throughout the state as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" in the category of Corporate Law (as published in Utah Business Magazine).