UnitedHealth Group Settles Litigation, Clearing Way for $3.3 billion Acquisition of Amedisys
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On August 7, 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) settled its litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice and several State Co-Plaintiffs, clearing the path to close its $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys. UHG and Amedisys are two of the nation’s leading hospice and home health care providers.
The merging parties retained Compass Lexecon’s Senior Managing Director Professor Dennis Carlton and Econic Partners’ Founding Partner Jon Orszag to testify about competitive effects of the proposed merger and address the divestiture proposal put forward by the merging parties.
Professor Carlton’s team was led by Yoad Shefi and included Professor Jonathan Kolstad, Theresa Sullivan, Tal Wolfson, Tomas Wilner, Junyan Guan, Liam Ziaja, and Eli Sorensen. Mr. Orszag’s team was led by Guillermo Israilevich and included Quinn Johnson, Matias Escudero, Benjamin Spulber, Neil Ries, Ziyu Fan, Sander Heinsalu, Zoya Azhar, Francisco Camp, Holly Chin, Niya Dai, Asteris Dougalis, Jake Kunkel, Jerry Wang, Junru Wu, and Aarushi Kataria from Compass Lexecon, and Bo Bourke, Jeff Raileanu, Jonnie Tompkins, Jaewon Lee, Haley Locke, Matt McCabe, Rebecca Felix, and Andres Strauss from Econic Partners. Mr. Orszag and his team also assisted Amedisys in the pre-litigation regulatory process.
The Compass Lexecon and Econic Partners teams worked closely with internal counsel at UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys, as well as outside counsel. UHG was represented by Richard Cunningham, Matthew Reilly, Jeffrey Ayer, Psalm Cheung, Genna Portner, John Smaltz, Lauren Taylor, and Catie Ventura of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Matthew Adler and Anthony Swisher of Baker Botts. Amedisys was represented by Katherine Forrest, Joshua Soven (now at Paul Hastings), Geoffrey Chepiga, Staci Yablon, Jacqueline Rubin, Sarah Prostko, Michael Buchwald, and Tommy Rucker of Paul Weiss, and Sara Razi, Preston Miller, Lindsey Bohl, Daniel Owsley, and Conner Dwinell of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.