Representative Experience
Mr. Schuchard has extensive experience in general business, merger and acquisition, governance and board relations, contract and financing matters. The clients of Mr. Schuchard’s diverse transactional and commercial practice in various industries including health care, education, insurance, trade associations, social service organizations, equipment maintenance and other service businesses.

Mr. Schuchard’s practice has included:
Advising clients in the areas of purchases and sales of businesses, mergers and management agreements, corporate governance and executive compensation in diverse industries, including manufacturing, service, insurance and health care

General corporation and commercial matters, including loan transactions, corporate structure, negotiating agreements for computer and telephone systems, equipment and real property sales and leases, commercial joint ventures and structuring and negotiating general and limited partnerships and limited liability companies

Advising numerous hospitals, health care systems and physician groups in general corporate, governance, corporate structure, contracts with top executives, commercial and health care matters

Representing clients before the charitable trust division of the California Attorney General’s office

Advising with respect to a number of health care merger and affiliation transactions, including:

• LHS Corp merger with HealthWest Foundation to form UniHealth
• Mercy Healthcare Bakersfield in its affiliation with Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
• Citrus Valley Health Partners, Inc. in its affiliation of Foothill Presbyterian Hospital
• San Pedro Peninsula Hospital in its affiliation with Little Company of Mary Health Services
• Methodist Hospital of Southern California in its affiliation with Huntington Memorial Hospital to form Southern California Healthcare Systems
• Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center in a five party merger to form Catholic Healthcare West Southern California
• Bay Harbor Hospital in its affiliation with Little Company of Mary Health Services
• Sale of Selma District Hospital to Adventist Health
• Little Company of Mary Health Services affiliation with Providence Health System
• Sale of USC/Norris Cancer Hospital to Tenet Healthcare
• Good Samaritan Community Healthcare in its affiliation with MultiCare Health System

Advising nonprofit health care facilities and systems and other charitable organizations, with particular focus on the corporate, fiduciary duty, tax and charitable trust issues facing such organizations

Prior Experience
Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Los Angeles

Partner, Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, Los Angeles

Publications and Presentations
Speaker, "Executive Briefing: Current Challenges in Healthcare Compliance," Hospital Association of Southern California conference, December 2005

Honors
Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2005, 2006 and 2007

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Southern California Law & Politics, 2006, 2007 and 2008

Memberships and Activities
Past Chair, California State Bar Committee on Nonprofit and Unincorporated Organizations

Member, American Health Lawyers Association

Member, Business Law Section of the State Bar of California State Bar of California

Education
J.D., Santa Clara University Law School, 1977

• Business Editor, Santa Clara Law Review

B.A. in Political Science, Stanford University, 1974