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Orren S. Adams
Partner
Overview
Orren Adams is known for his sincere interest in helping clients pursue opportunities and overcome challenges to succeed in business. He dedicates his career assisting both large national corporations and closely held family enterprises work through and close mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and financial reorganizations in the private, not for profit, and ESOP sectors.
Orren has extensive experience working in the health care industry having been involved in many high-profile health care related transactions, including the integration of hospital systems and the transfer and financing of home health, assisted living, skilled nursing, and hospice facilities on a national platform having served as a lead counsel in transaction values exceeding $1 billion. He also has extensive experience in the manufacturing, real estate, and venture capital industries having served as a lead counsel in transaction values exceeding $1 billion.
In addition his daily practice, Orren earned a Masters of Tax Law with a focus in Corporate, Partnership, and International Taxation from Boston University and he has continued his relationship with the academic field as an adjunct professor in Washington University’s LLM Tax program, as a co-author of the Missouri Bar Estate Planning Desk Book (Drafting Business Purchase and Restrictive Transfer Agreements), and a speaker discussing topics including mergers and acquisitions and family business succession planning, all to stay engaged and informed with the latest trends in corporate transactions.
Credentials
Education
- Boston University, 1999 (LLM)
- Gonzaga University, 1998 (J.D.)
- Averett University, 1995 (B.A.)
Court Admissions
- Lead counsel in connection with the sale of all of the assets of a foreclosed Illinois nursing facility. The transaction’s value exceeded seven figures and involved significant corporate, real estate, regulatory, and bankruptcy work.
- Lead counsel in connection with (i) the sale of all of the assets of an Illinois 158 bed skilled nursing facility and (ii) the negotiation of a lease purchase agreement on behalf of the related real estate holding company. The transaction involved significant corporate, real estate, regulatory and HUD financing work.
- Lead counsel in connection with (i) the sale of all of the assets of an Illinois 190 bed skilled nursing facility and (ii) the negotiation of a lease purchase agreement on behalf of the real estate holding company.
- Special counsel, in connection with the sale of all of the assets (including real estate) of a Kansas 120 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Special counsel, in connection with the sale of all of the assets (including real estate) of a Missouri 120 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Special counsel, in connection with the sale of all of the assets (including real estate) of a Texas 119 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the sale of all of the assets of a Texas 60 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the sale of all of the assets of a Texas 91 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the sale of all of the assets of an Illinois 213 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the sale of all of the assets of a Texas 99 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the purchase of all of the assets (including real estate) of an Illinois 158 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the purchase of all of the assets (including real estate) of an Illinois 231 bed skilled nursing facility.
- Lead counsel in connection with the purchase of all of the assets (including real estate) of an Illinois assisted living facility (55 intermediate care beds, 47 assisted living units, and 107 independent living apartments).
- Lead counsel in connection with the development and sale of all of the assets of Illinois skilled nursing facility. The transaction involved significant corporate, real estate, regulatory, and financing expertise.
- Lead counsel for the domestic corporate reorganization of beverage company with an enterprise value over one billion dollars.
- Lead counsel for the acquisition of manufacturing company with an eight-figure enterprise value that included a syndicated loan facility and multiple levels of mezzanine debt.
- Lead counsel for the sale of a distributorship with an eight-figure enterprise value that included a syndicated loan facility and multiple levels of mezzanine debt.
- Local counsel with respect to a nine-figure syndicated financing for a health care services provider.
- Fiduciary duty special counsel to a manufacturing company’s board of directors in the sale of a multi-owned family company.
- Adjunct Professor, Washington University School of Law, LLM Tax Program (four years)
- Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2022-2024
- “Commercial Contracting and Uniform Commercial Code Considerations,” U.S. Department of Commerce (IRP & Technological Commercialization Delegation)
- “Business Succession Planning for Closing Held Businesses,” Associate General Counsel of Saint Louis, Missouri
- “Skilled Nursing Facility Transactions and Significant Negotiated Tension Points,” Speaking of Health Law, an American Health Law Association podcast
- “Drafting Business Purchase and Restrictive Transfer Agreements,” Missouri Bar Estate Planning Desk Book (Current Edition)