Joel C. Rush is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He focuses his practice on transactional and corporate matters affecting health care organizations, including mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and venture capital investments. Joel has extensive experience working on hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions. Previously, Joel was an associate in the healthcare and corporate services groups in the Washington, D.C. office of a national law firm. Joel graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he served as Notes and Comments Editor of The Journal of Business and Technology Law.