John J. Durso

John Durso is a partner and senior member of the Healthcare Practice Group. John has dedicated his 33-year legal career to serving long term care and other providers, religious organizations, churches and other not-for-profit organizations in virtually every area of legal practice including: mergers; acquisitions; affiliations; joint ventures; corporate restructuring; tax; corporate workouts; bankruptcy; tax exemption; health care finance; public finance; labor and employment; complex litigation; administrative and regulatory; reimbursement; fraud and abuse; HIPAA; survey and certification; alternative insurance and risk mechanisms (including captive insurance companies); risk management. His clients include post acute long-term care facilities; CCRCs; assisted living facilities; senior housing community based services and other providers of every type and size serving seniors; post acute care alliances; national and state trade associations; hospitals and health systems; integrated delivery networks; physician and physician groups; religious institutes; churches; educational institutions; social services agencies; other not-for-profit institutions; investment bankers, insurance companies, pension funds REITs, private and other sources of capital to providers. John also serves as a volunteer director of many not-for-profit health care providers and educational institutions’ Board of Directors.

John is a frequent lecturer on legal issues and he also writes a legal update column for McKnights Long Term Care News and he has appeared in and produced the ABA/ACHE’s annual television show entitled, “Health Law Progress and Legislative Update.” He has appeared on a number of other television shows and has testified before congressional committees on legal issues related to health care. Most recently, John appeared on Chicago Tonight regarding property tax exemption issues following Provena Covenant Medical Center v. Department of Revenue. To view the program, click here.

He has represented the following national and state associations:

• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
• American Association of Senior Housing
• Life Services Network of Illinois

He has represented clients in over 500 transactions involving:

• Mergers, acquisitions, affiliations or joint ventures of every type.
• Twenty horizontal alliances of long term care providers including but not limited to the following: Health Resources Alliance (Chicago); Momentum Health Solutions (Cincinnati); and Covenant (Phoenix).
• Led in the formation of Continuing Care Insurance Company, a Cayman offshore captive insurance company insuring approximately 70,000 nursing homes and senior housing units owned by the 29 post acute care provider shareholders.
• He has represented his clients in the U.S. and Illinois Supreme Courts.