Richard D. Vroman

Richard (Rick) Vroman’s work at Koley Jessen is unique in that he leads two separate practice groups that are very specific to his twenty years of experience as an attorney. As the leader of the Health Law Practice, Rick helps clients navigate the highly regulated and ever-changing global healthcare environment. As leader of the Executive Compensation Practice, he helps clients navigate complex compensation structures, develop short and long-term incentive programs, and plan for business succession.

Health Law

Rick’s work ranges from representing healthcare professionals in their personal and business matters, to advising global healthcare industry leaders on business and regulatory compliance matters.

His expertise includes advising clients with ties to the healthcare industry on business and contractual matters such as entity selection and formation, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, compensation plans, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, as well as buy-sell and personal services agreements. Rick also has extensive experience advising clients on transactional and regulatory matters throughout the healthcare industry such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, real estate purchasing and leasing, equipment purchasing and leasing, asset protection, and data privacy and security matters (including HIPAA).

Rick has significant expertise advising healthcare clients with respect to their individual and entity licensing, medical staff, credentialing and peer review matters, as well as regulatory matters arising out of the client’s participation in, or ties to, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which would include the Stark Law, Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and False Claims Act. He effectively represents clients before licensing boards as well as state and federal agencies governing both employment-related and healthcare matters.

As an employment lawyer, Rick is further specialized in the healthcare industry, as well as with executive and incentive compensation matters and unfair competition. He advises clients across the United States on the unique employment-related issues in the healthcare industry, including a broad array of employment-related contractual and tax matters, employment, confidentiality, noncompetition, and separation or severance agreements. He represents employers and executives in wrongful termination, discrimination, and retaliation cases.

Rick works closely with other attorneys and practice groups in the Firm to ensure that clients with ties to the healthcare industry receive the full contingent of expertise offered by the Firm in each discipline.

Rick is rated in Healthcare Law by Chambers and Partners, which noted, "He is always very responsive and gives all angles of the scenarios. He knows his stuff," and "He is very thorough, with outstanding attention to detail, and is able to keep complex negotiations moving forward."

Executive Compensation

In the Executive Compensation Practice area, Rick’s experience includes years of design and implementation of traditional and customized executive and management incentive compensation programs using equity based incentives and/or traditional non-qualified deferred compensation components.

Rick has significant experience advising clients with regard to simple, complex, and customized executive compensation matters, stock options, restricted stock, non-qualified deferred compensation, equity-based incentives, or other synthetic equity programs. Rick has made a practice of customizing each plan or program to meet the unique needs and goals of the client’s business and the industry in which they operate. He has the legal and practical knowledge and experience necessary to get the right program for his clients.