Paul DeMuro, Ph.D., is an attorney and strategic advisor who uses his cross-disciplinary background in informatics, finance and accounting, economics, and law, coupled with his extensive health care knowledge and experience, to assist clients in swiftly identifying and implementing solutions to the myriad issues that they face.
His broad array of clients has included private equity funds, accountable care organizations (ACOs), hospitals, health care districts, physicians, managed care organizations, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgery centers, pharmaceutical companies, ancillary service providers, real estate developers, and information technology organizations. Clients call on Paul for advice on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions aimed at streamlining health care, real estate, and information technology operations. He also advises on physician integration issues, including both clinical integration and integration into organizations hiring physicians from traditional private practices.
In addition, clients seek Paul’s guidance on complex data analytics, quality, value-based purchasing, managed care, accountable care, precision medicine, informatics, patient-generated health data, digital health, data sharing, compliance, Medicare Advantage, and privacy and security issues. He has worked in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing for many years. Paul also leads internal investigations and counsels on corporate governance, executive and physician compensation, regulatory compliance, and public-private partnership issues. His vast regulatory experience, including in the antitrust space, helps minimize the time spent analyzing matters and coming up with potential solutions.
Paul has facilitated board retreats, developed corporate reorganization strategies, been named an expert witness, developed strategies for mixed-use real estate projects, and worked as a data science/analytics advisor and an Associate Professor at a College of Pharmacy. Besides his legal training, he is a certified public accountant in Maryland who earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance. His educational background, in-house counsel experience (as a Chief Legal Officer for Health and Wellness for a real estate developer in Miami), and many years of practice at a global law firm enable Paul to anticipate and effectively address his clients’ legal and business challenges.
