Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne


	3043 4th Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 PHONE: 619.209.3000 • FAX: 619.209.3043 Directions to Our San Diego Office


	78-000 Fred Waring Drive • Suite 102 Palm Desert, CA 92211 PHONE: 760.341.3332 • FAX: 760.200.1348 Directions to Our Palm Desert Office

This month's featured member of the DSMW team is Gary J. Spradling. Let us introduce you to Gary.

A co-founder of Duckor Spradling Metzger & Wynne, Gary is responsible for the firm’s business practice. He is also instrumental in developing the firm's well-recognized expertise in the representation of physicians and other health care providers.

The firm's health care practice now encompasses the full range of business and regulatory matters facing clients in the health care industry. Those matters include managed care contracting and the formation, affiliation and consolidation of medical groups, independent practice associations and management services organizations. Gary works with clients to develop joint venture arrangements with hospitals and assists medical groups in unwinding unsuccessful affiliations with hospitals and practice management companies.

Assisting clients in the selection of a corporation, partnership or limited liability company for the start up of their business to achieve the desired business objectives comprises a significant portion of Gary's practice. He works closely with clients in all phases of their business, providing counseling with respect to financing needs, compensation and ownership succession arrangements, as well as structuring and negotiating merger and acquisition transactions and resolving management and governance disputes among owners.

As president of the firm, “I expect our attorneys to care about our clients. If we are dealing with the sole source of their livelihoods, then they have the right to expect us to handle their legal work as if they were our most important client. I feel the same way.”

Gary graduated from Southeast Missouri University in 1966 (B.S., Business Administration). At Hastings College of Law, he was a member of the Thurston Society (an academic honor society), President of the local chapter of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and served as Executive Editor of Hastings Law Journal. He is a member of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys and Health Law Section of the ABA. Gary lectures regionally and nationally on owner succession arrangements, mergers and acquisitions and governance issues.

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