Dena brings over a decade of complex M&A and corporate transactional experience to AHL. She has extensive experience handling transactional matters across a variety of industries, including healthcare, with a total transaction value exceeding $15 billion. Before founding her own M&A-focused transaction boutique, Dena worked at two of the world’s top M&A law firms.

Dena focuses her practice exclusively on M&A and related corporate matters, advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. She has particular expertise in transactions within the private equity and institutional investor ecosystem. With a pragmatic, commercially minded approach, she emphasizes strategic problem-solving in her transactional work.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE & REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Advises a venture capital-backed home healthcare agency on multiple acquisitions related to geographic expansion.

• Advises various health systems and physician practices on corporate structuring and governance documentation.

• Advised a private equity-backed physician practice on post-sale corporate and governance matters.

• Advised a private equity client on the acquisition of a healthcare technology and services company, as well as the company on various add-on acquisitions and corporate matters.

• Advised a pharmaceutical company on a commercialization joint venture.

• Advised a physician practice on its sale to private equity investors.

• Advised a private equity-backed laboratory services company on corporate matters and a sale transaction.

CREDENTIALS

Education.

• Harvard Law School – Juris Doctor, 2014

• Vanderbilt University – Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, 2008

Admissions.

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut (Pending)

Prior Positions.

• Kirkland & Ellis LLP – Partner (Boston)

• Bain Capital, North America Private Equity – Legal Counsel (Boston, Secondment)

• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – Associate (Boston)