Pat Cornelius Joins Barnes & Thornburg’s Corporate and Healthcare Departments
Barnes & Thornburg has added Pat Cornelius as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Healthcare Departments in Columbus.
Cornelius focuses his practice on advising clients, who span the healthcare, financial services, life sciences and biotechnology, insurance, energy, and aviation industries, on mergers and acquisitions, as well as matters concerning joint venture and affiliation, capital raising and investments, contracting and licensing, technology development and commercialization, compliance and corporate governance.
In a release, the firm said Cornelius provides counsel on health system mergers and acquisitions, health system-insurer joint ventures, shared savings agreements and payor-provider contracting, hospital-physician alignment strategies, and capital raising and investment transactions. He also advises on in-bound and out-bound licensing software and intellectual property for research, development and commercialization.
Cornelius joins from Squire Patton Boggs, where he was a member of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. He also previously served as assistant general counsel for America Online, Inc. and as primary counsel for CompuServe and MapQuest.
Cornelius earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Virginia Tax Review, and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
