About Stephen
Steve Braun advises hospitals, surgery centers and other health care providers in transactional, regulatory and operations matters. His transactional experience includes numerous acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures of hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and insurance companies. Steve also has extensive experience involving mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries; public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; and stock options and other equity compensation plans. He has been responsible for the negotiation of definitive agreements and securities work on five transactions valued at more than $1 billion each, as well as numerous other hospital and health system acquisitions. He has represented issuers or underwriters in a variety of industries, including health care, banking, oil and gas, biotechnology, retail and manufacturing. Steve's work also has included the review of periodic reports of publicly traded companies. He was formerly the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of HCA, Inc. (1991-1997).
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Nashville (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Nashville (2019)
- Lawyer of the Year: Health Care Law, Nashville (2018)
- Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, Nashville (2017)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Nashville (2015)
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Health Care Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Special Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Listed in Nashville Business Journal
- Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2006-2012
- Listed in Lawdragon 3000
- Listed in Guide to America's Leading Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers
- Listed in The Expert Guide to the "Leading US Healthcare Lawyers"
- Listed in Chambers USA
- Listed in Business Tennessee, "150 Best Lawyers," 2009
- Listed in America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Health Care, 2009