Bruce Dizenfeld has been a business lawyer and strategist for 29 years with emphasis in structuring collaborative and strategic ventures. He has represented clients in all phases of transactions across diverse industries, with significant experience in the technology and health care fields.
Bruce's areas of expertise include:
- Business organizations and alternative economic contracts
- Private equity offerings and alternative financing strategies
- Venture capital financing
- Management and shareholder relations/disputes
- Employment/contractor relations, including incentive plans
- Vendor/licensor relations
- Trademark, copyright, trade secret protection and licensing
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Alternative liquidation strategies
- Regulatory advice in health care
Representative Matters
- Represented wide range of health care entities, including hospitals, surgical clinics, dialysis clinics, imaging centers, rehabilitation centers, board and care facilities, IPAs, physician groups, sleep centers and cardiology centers on licensing, reimbursement, anti-kickback, anti-referral limitations, and other related issues
- Organized a single specialty, nationwide clinical research service organization consisting of urology practices across the country, as well as creating a related management organization to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and CROs
- Negotiated medical device patent license from university for faculty practice inventor for private commercial exploitation
- Structured patent license for medical technology start-up organization, financing, and eventual sale of business to venture-backed company
- Sale of business of California dental health plan to national health plan operator
- Counseled formation of medical technology venture with public company which grew into $400 million enterprise
- Represented health care billing start-up company regarding its organization structure, financing, governance, operations, and eventual sale to publicly traded billing and physician services company
- Sale of business of telecom servicing company to large venture-backed private national logistics firm seeking to vertically integrate telecommunications services
- Technology acquisition licensing for start-up multi-platform (mobile, broadband and television) digital content aggregator and distribution company
- Sale of business and continued minority ownership participation of printing and distribution company to new venture-backed entity
- Sale of niche servicing software business to national credit and merchant services business
- Sale of business of niche regional construction business to private national niche construction products business
- Counseled online poker start-up regarding its organization structure, financing, governance and operations
- Represented two start-up insurance companies (the first pet health insurance company and a workers' compensation insurer) regarding organization and financing
- Structured the organization, initial financing and acquisition of franchised restaurants
- Structured franchise documents and assisted with public offering of franchisor in retail chocolate sales
- Restructured patent ownership and sale of patent rights and trademark licenses to communication technology venture-backed company
Articles
- Bruce Dizenfeld featured in Smart Business Magazine, July 2009
Publications
Bruce has written numerous articles on various aspects of business organizations, including licensing, risk management, intellectual property and finance in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Modern Healthcare, California Health Law News, Business Law News, Business Insurance, Legal Opinions (Business Law Section of the State Bar of California), International Law Section Newsletter (State Bar of California), Beverly Hills Bar Association Newsletter, and Whittier Law Review. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the California Health Law Digest and a Co-Editor of Financing Techniques for Small and Emerging Businesses.
Speaking Engagements
- Los Angeles County Bar Association Health Care Law Section, Panelist, "Physicians Are at Risk, But May Not Know It (Yet)—What Lawyers and Their Physician and Related Healthcare Clients Need to Know " (Los Angeles, March 2010)
Professional Qualifications and Memberships
Bruce is admitted to practice in California. He has served on a number of local and state bar committees as Founder and First Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Healthcare Law Section, Chair of the Subcommittee on Physician Joint Ventures of the California State Bar Association's Committee to Confer with the CMA, Chair of the State Bar Business Law Section Education Committee and as Assistant Editor of the State Bar International Law Section Newsletter. Bruce has also served as Honorary Consul General for the Republic of Mauritius since 1982.
Bruce has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, as published in Southern California Super Lawyer Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine.
Education
Bruce received his BA from the University of Southern California and his JD from the University of California, Los Angeles.