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Wiggin and Dana LLP announced today that Debbie Cardinali has joined the firm’s New Haven office as a partner in the Health Care Practice Group.

With more than 30 years of experience, Cardinali is an established health care transactions attorney with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financial transactions, and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Wiggin and Dana, Cardinali was senior associate general counsel and director of transactional legal services at a major health care system, where her practice focused on acquisitions, joint ventures, collaborations and regulatory advice.

Cardinali has also been a partner in private practice advising private equity groups and middle market companies on a wide variety of transactions and corporate matters across many industries. In addition, she has assisted in structuring collaboration agreements for clients with startup and early-stage companies to help develop and improve innovative software technology and products.

“Major hospitals and health care systems remain eager to integrate medical practices, outpatient centers, and increasingly, emerging innovators, as they seek out more efficient and progressive ways to deliver care,” said Kristina Wesch, chair of Wiggin and Dana’s Health Care Practice Group. “Wiggin’s robust health care, transactional and emerging companies capabilities enable a unique perspective on these matters. With a foot in both worlds, Debbie further complements our multidimensional work in the health care transactions space, and supports and extends our ability to serve clients’ most complex needs.”

Wiggin and Dana is home to one of the largest, most extensive and experienced health law practices in the region. Health care organizations and providers of all types—as well as state and national associations and professional societies active in health care policy issues—count on Wiggin and Dana to provide general and special counsel across corporate, regulatory and litigation matters.

Managing Partner Tim Diemand noted, “Debbie adds exceptional talent and experience to our health care team, which is among the firm’s strongest and serves many of our largest institutional clients. We are very excited to welcome her to the partnership.”

“I know Wiggin’s national health care practice well,” said Cardinali. “I’ve always considered it among the top firms for health systems, across corporate, compliance, and fraud and abuse matters. Having met the whole team, I am excited to jump in and contribute to the core health care offering as well as the firm’s private equity capabilities.”

Cardinali earned her J.D. at University of Virginia School of Law and B.S. at Old Dominion University.

About Wiggin and Dana

Wiggin and Dana is a national law firm with more than 160 attorneys. We are a true partnership of highly talented, creative, and experienced lawyers dedicated to exceeding our clients’ expectations every day. With offices in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Palm Beach, we represent clients throughout the United States and globally in a wide range of sophisticated and complex matters. From defending the Fortune 500 in “bet-the-company” litigation, to helping the next generation of inventors bring new technologies to market, to preserving the wealth that family businesses worked so hard to create, we pride ourselves in offering value-driven solutions and results.