Mazen Asbahi

Mazen Asbahi has over 20 years of experience working with clients in healthcare and corporate law. In healthcare, Mazen represents physicians, dentists and other providers, as well as start-up and growth stage companies in the healthcare and technology sectors on their respective transactional, regulatory and operational matters.

Mazen’s corporate law background encompasses serving as outside general counsel to fast-growing companies and representing entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in the areas of start-up, venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general commercial matters.

Mazen is committed to serving the community. He has served on a number of boards of directors and regularly counsels nonprofit boards and executives on governance, best practices, and day-to-day operational matters. Mazen is a Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago, a civic leadership development organization.

Mazen earned his J.D., with cum laude honors, from Northwestern University School of Law in 2000 and received a B.A. with high honors in political science and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 1996.

• Business counseling
• Healthcare
• Healthcare restructuring
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Startup and venture capital
• Family and closely held business counseling
• Nonprofit
• Government contracting and procurement

• Northwestern University School of Law
• University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

• American Bar Association, Business Law, Health and Nonprofit Law Committees
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Chicago Council of Lawyers

• 2007 Fellows Program
• Board Member, Fellows Associations (2007-2011)
• Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Board of Directors & General Counsel (2004-2016)
• Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, Board of Directors (2011-2013)
• Chicago Legal Clinic Auxiliary Board (2005-2008)
• Syrian Support Group, Board of Directors; President (2012-2014)
• Syrian American Council, Chicago Council, President (2014-2015)
• Mecca Center, Board Member (2015—present)
• Obama for America 2008 Presidential Campaign, National Outreach Director for Arab Americans and Muslim Americans

• Co-author of chapter on Physician Transactions in the “Health Care Transactions Manual: Understanding the Consequences of the Health Care Deal” (AHLA 2020)
• American Medical Association to Tackle Texting (May 8, 2017)
• Health Reform Outlook for 2017: A Year of Major Uncertainty (January 11, 2017)
• CMS Issues Final MACRA Rule: Expands Exemptions and Flexibility for Smaller Practices (October 17, 2016)
• CMS Allays Concerns Regarding Medicare Quality Payment Program Reporting Starting January 1, 2017 (September 15, 2016)
• Faith and Politics at Obama for America, in All American: 45 American Men on being Muslim (White Cloud Press: 2012)
• Co-author, Padding Down Esopus Creek: Using Bankruptcy as a Corporate Governance Tool, Bankruptcy Strategist (March 2007), reprinted in Corporate Counsel (April 2007), with Jonathan Friedland
• Co-author, Up the Ladder and Beyond: Attorney Conduct and Reporting Duties with Respect to Issuers, Auditors and the Commission Under SEC Implementing Rules to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents (Practicing Law Institute, January 2005), with Terry F. Moritz and Robert M. Oberlies

• “Hot Topics in Physician Law: Fraud & Abuse Enforcement Trends; Physician Compensation; and Private Equity Investment in Physician Practices,” Annual Brunch Seminar – SAMS Midwest (April 28, 2019)
• “Super Groups: Formation and Operational Issues,” Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute of the American Health Lawyers Association (February 12, 2020)
• “Hot Topics in Physician Law: Fraud & Abuse Enforcement Trends; Physician Compensation; and Private Equity Investment in Physician Practices,” Annual Conference of Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent in North America (July 9, 2017)
• “Hot Topics in Healthcare Law,” Syrian American Medical Society Conference (February 15, 2015)
• “Effective Compliance Plans for Medical Practices,” Syrian American Medical Society Conference (February 15, 2015)
• “Hot Topics in Healthcare Law,” National Arab American Medical Association Conference (September 3, 2012)
• “Understanding the Physicians Sunshine Payment Act,” Syrian American Medical Society Foundation (January 22, 2012)
• “What You Need to Know Before Signing Your Employment Agreement,” Society of Hospitalist Medicine – Chicago Chapter Meeting (November 4, 2009)