Shareholder

Los Angeles

Direct: 213.891.5727

Office: 213.891.0700

mrose@buchalter.com

Bar Admissions

California, New Jersey, New York

Overview

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Mary Rose is a Shareholder in both the firm’s Insolvency and Financial Solutions Group and the firm’s Health Care Group. She has extensive experience in bankruptcy, insolvency, lending and creditors’ rights matters, as well as healthcare and business transactions.

In the healthcare area, Ms. Rose represents hospitals, lenders to hospitals, and landlords of hospitals. She has handled a broad variety of healthcare transactions, including hospital acquisitions, loans and debt restructurings, factoring of healthcare receivables, real property leases, and general corporate and real estate matters.

Ms. Rose’s bankruptcy and insolvency experience spans a variety of industries and includes representation of asset purchasers, lenders, landlords, creditors’ committees, individual creditors, and debtors in bankruptcy and reorganization cases, out-of-court debt restructurings and liquidations. She also represents both lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured credit facilities, loans and debt restructurings, secured transactions, and accounts receivable factoring transactions. 

Ms. Rose also has expertise in FDIC receiverships and has represented multiple landlords in FDIC receiverships of failed banks and their related Chapter 11 cases.

Ms. Rose has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America in two legal specialties – (1) Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and (2) Health Care Law – for 2023 – 2026.

Hospital Bankruptcies

  • Acquisition of free-standing facilities and multi-state groups of long term acute care hospitals (LTACH’s), short term acute care hospitals (STACH’s), and skilled nursing facilities (SNF’s) in chapter 11 cases in California and Delaware
  • Representation of stalking horse bidders and overbidders for short term and long term acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in Chapter 11 cases in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas.
  • Representation of providers of debtor-in-possession financing to hospitals in multiple Chapter 11

Hospital Acquisitions

  • Acquisition of downtown Los Angeles hospital involved in skid row Medicare and Medi-Cal fraud scheme in violation of the False Claims Act.
  • Acquisition of two financially troubled St. Louis hospitals.
  • Acquisition of Los Angeles and San Diego hospitals and conversion to long-term acute care hospitals.

Healthcare Finance

  • Representation of secured lenders to
  • Representation of factors in accounts receivable factoring facilities for hospitals and other healthcare businesses.
  • Representation of bank lender in term loan to non-profit general acute care hospital insured by California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).
  • Negotiations with California Department of Health Care Services regarding Hospital Quality Assurance Fee (HQAF) and Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments.

Real Estate Matters

  • Representation of landlords to distressed hospitals.
  • Purchase and sale of hospital real
  • Negotiation of hospital and medical office building (MOB)
  • Representation of landlords in FDIC receiverships of failed banks and related chapter 11 cases.
  • Advice to landlords regarding mechanics liens.

Admissions

  • California
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Education

  • NYU School of Law, J.D., 1978
  • New York University, MBA, Finance, 1980
  • Brown University, A.B., 1975

  • Health Care Finance
  • Bankruptcy
  • Workouts and Restructuring

  • California Lawyers Association, Insolvency Committee
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • Financial Lawyers Conference
  • Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum

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