On August 7, 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) settled its litigation with U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and several State co-Plaintiffs, clearing the path to close its $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys; UHG and Amedisys are two of the nation’s leading hospice and home health care providers.
The merging parties retained Econic Partners Founding Partner Jon Orszag and Compass Lexecon Senior Managing Director Dennis Carlton to testify about the competitive effects of the proposed merger, as well as the divestiture proposal put forward by the merging parties.
The team supporting Mr. Orszag and Prof. Carlton included Bo Bourke, Jeff Raileanu, Jonnie Tompkins, Jaewon Lee, Holly Bourque, Haley Locke, Matt McCabe, Rebecca Felix, and Andres Strauss of Econic Partners and Guillermo Israilevich, Yoad Shefi, Theresa Sullivan, Quinn Johnson, Ziyu Fan, Matias Escudero, Ben Spulber, Tal Wolfson, Junyan Guan, Tomas Wilner, Liam Ziaja, Eli Sorensen, Sander Heinsalu, Neil Reis, Zoya Azhar, Francisco Camp, Asteris Dougalis, Junru Wu, Jake Kunkel, Niya Dai, Holly Chin, Jerry Wang and Aarushi Kataria of Compass Lexecon. Mr. Orszag and his team also assisted Amedisys in the pre-litigation regulatory process.
The Econic Partners and Compass Lexecon teams worked closely with internal counsel at UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys as well as outside counsel. UHG was represented by Rich Cunningham, Matt Reilly, Jeff Ayer, Psalm Cheung, and John Smaltz of Kirkland & Ellis, and Matt Adler and Anthony Swisher of Baker Botts. Amedisys was represented by Katherine Forrest, Josh Soven (now at Paul Hastings), Geoff Chepiga, Staci Yablon, Jacqueline Rubin, Sarah Prostko, Michael Buchwald, and Tommy Rucker of Paul Weiss, and Sara Razi, Preston Miller, Lindsey Bohl, Dan Owsley, and Conner Dwinell of Simpson Thacher.
