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Jenny F. Shealy
Partner
3751 Robert M. Grissom Parkway
Suite 300
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
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.
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
- 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
- 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
Media
Recognitions
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare – South Carolina (2023, 2024)
- Turnaround Management Association’s Non-Profit Company Transaction of the Year (2016)
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
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare – South Carolina (2023, 2024)
- Turnaround Management Association’s Non-Profit Company Transaction of the Year (2016)
- 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
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