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Jenny F. Shealy

Jenny F. Shealy

Partner

Pinnacle Corporate Center
3751 Robert M. Grissom Parkway
Suite 300
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
T 843.946.5684
F 843.448.3437
jenny.shealy@nelsonmullins.com
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Jenny F. Shealy represents health care providers and tax-exempt organizations on wide-ranging regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding tax-exempt healthcare organizations. She regularly advises clients on ways to structure transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint...

Jenny F. Shealy represents health care providers and tax-exempt organizations on wide-ranging regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding tax-exempt healthcare organizations. She regularly advises clients on ways to structure transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations.

Shealy provides strategic and practical advice regarding various hospital/physician transactions including employment and independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements with a focus on minimizing the compliance risks caused by extensive and complex regulatory requirements governing the healthcare industry.

She advises various types of tax-exempt organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code and assists tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues.  Shealy also provides tax-exempt organizations with guidance regarding bylaws and corporate governance, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality-related issues.

Jenny F. Shealy

operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations.

Shealy provides strategic and practical advice regarding various hospital/physician transactions including employment and independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements with a focus on minimizing the compliance risks caused by extensive and complex regulatory requirements governing the healthcare industry.

She advises various types of tax-exempt organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code and assists tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues.  Shealy also provides tax-exempt organizations with guidance regarding bylaws and corporate governance, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality-related issues.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
  • Experience in working with organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code, as well as assisting tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues
  • Significant experience in structuring transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations
  • Experience in various hospital/physician transactions including employment arrangements
  • Works with for-profit entities and their owners in structuring tax-efficient corporate transactions that comply with applicable healthcare laws
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.
  • Experience in working with organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code, as well as assisting tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues
  • Significant experience in structuring transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations
  • Experience in various hospital/physician transactions including employment arrangements
  • Works with for-profit entities and their owners in structuring tax-efficient corporate transactions that comply with applicable healthcare laws

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Professional Activities

  • Member of Board of Directors of Horry Telephone Cooperative
  • American Healthcare Lawyers Association
  • South Carolina Bar
  • American Bar Association
  • Horry County Bar Association
  • Member, Tax Section, South Carolina Bar

Community

  • Former member of the South Carolina Bar’s Tax Council
  • Former member of the board of directors of The Lowcountry Food Bank
  • Former member of the Executive Committee of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation

Jenny F. Shealy represents health care providers and tax-exempt organizations on wide-ranging regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding tax-exempt healthcare organizations. She regularly advises clients on ways to structure transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint... operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations.

Shealy provides strategic and practical advice regarding various hospital/physician transactions including employment and independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements with a focus on minimizing the compliance risks caused by extensive and complex regulatory requirements governing the healthcare industry.

She advises various types of tax-exempt organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code and assists tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues.  Shealy also provides tax-exempt organizations with guidance regarding bylaws and corporate governance, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality-related issues.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

  • Experience in working with organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code, as well as assisting tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues
  • Significant experience in structuring transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations
  • Experience in various hospital/physician transactions including employment arrangements
  • Works with for-profit entities and their owners in structuring tax-efficient corporate transactions that comply with applicable healthcare laws

Education

  • New York University, LLM, Taxation (2002)
    • Graduate editor of the New York University Tax Law Review
  • University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, magna cum laude (2001)
    • The Order of the Coif
    • Phi Delta Phi
    • Order of Wig and Robe
    • Associate Articles Editor, South Carolina Law Review  
    • Received Arthur B. Custy Tax Law Award
    • Received CALI awards for constitutional law and federal practice
  • University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business, Master of Business Administration (2001)
  • Wofford College, BA, Government and Accounting, summa cum laude (1997)
    • Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

  • South Carolina

Practice Areas

The bar rules of some states require that the standards for an attorney's inclusion in certain public accolades or recognitions be provided. When such accolades or recognitions are listed, a hyperlink is provided that leads to a description of the respective selection methodology.

  • Member of Board of Directors of Horry Telephone Cooperative
  • American Healthcare Lawyers Association
  • South Carolina Bar
  • American Bar Association
  • Horry County Bar Association
  • Member, Tax Section, South Carolina Bar
  • Former member of the South Carolina Bar’s Tax Council
  • Former member of the board of directors of The Lowcountry Food Bank
  • Former member of the Executive Committee of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation