Amanda Zablocki

Amanda Zablocki is co-leader of the firm's 230-attorney Healthcare industry team. She is a trusted legal and strategic advisor to healthcare organizations across the country, helping them to achieve their goals while navigating a dynamic regulatory landscape.

Areas of Practice

Amanda leads complex healthcare deals, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, corporate reorganizations, and value-based care arrangements. She routinely advises clients on a range of healthcare and nonprofit regulatory matters, including fraud, waste, and abuse, the corporate practice of medicine, nonprofit law, tax exemption, corporate governance, and compliance matters. Amanda began her career as a commercial litigator, and she brings that experience to bear when advocating her clients’ positions, counseling her clients in connection with actual and potential disputes, and defending clients before government audits and investigations. 

Amanda’s clients include health plans and health insurers, hospitals, academic medical centers, digital health and healthcare technology companies, integrated healthcare delivery systems, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, rare disease organizations, independent practice associations, physician practices, management services organizations, value-based enterprises, care management organizations, and 501(c)(3) organizations.

At Sheppard Mullin, Amanda has devoted substantial time towards supporting the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the legal industry, serving as Co-Chair of the New York Women Lawyers’ Group (WLG) for several years before joining the firm’s WLG National Leadership Council. In her role as Chair of the firm’s New York Recruiting Committee, Amanda is proud to cultivate the next generation of attorneys through the firm’s highly ranked summer associate program.

Amanda co-founded Sheppard Mullin’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative, an exclusive initiative that provides support to women professionals in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

Honors

Leading Lawyer, Chambers USA, 2024

Next Generation Partner - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2021-2024

Recommended Attorney - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2020-2024

500 X – The Next Generation, Lawdragon, 2023-2024

New York Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2015-2022

Rising Star - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2020

Associate to Watch, Chambers USA, 2018

Ms. Zablocki was a member of the pro bono team at Sheppard Mullin receiving the 2011 Frankel Award from Human Rights First for their successful representation of Abdalmageed Haroun, a prominent human rights activist and former Sudanese prisoner. In the Sudan, Mr. Haroun's work focused on women's rights, the plight of internally displaced refugees, and the victims of the conflict in Darfur. As a result of his selfless and heroic efforts, Mr. Haroun was detained for months, persecuted, tortured, and threatened with death by the Sudanese government, forcing him to flee the country. The firm represented Mr. Haroun in connection with his application for asylum in the United States.

Articles

Labor and Employment Law Blog Posts

• "Tax Reform: Nonprofits and their Executives Brace for Impact," December 7, 2017

Healthcare Law Blog

• "Women’s Health on the Ballot in November: What the Election Could Mean for Reproductive Care and Beyond," October 4, 2024
• "Supreme Court Unanimously Preserves Access to Mifepristone," June 14, 2024

• "IVF Caught in the Crosshairs: The Aftermath of the LePage Decision," March 19, 2024
• "Sheppard Mullin’s Top 10 Takeaways from HLTH 2023," October 18, 2023

• "At HLTH 2023: The Digital Health Symphony, A Care Coordination Orchestra with No Maestro," October 10, 2023
• "At HLTH 2023: General Catalyst’s HATCo Introduces a Radically Ambitious and Transformative Model for Healthcare," October 9, 2023

• "Fifth Circuit Rules to Reinstate Abortion Pill Restrictions," August 17, 2023

• "Access to Abortion Pill on the Precipice: A Deep Dive into the Federal Court Rulings that will Decide the Fate of Mifepristone," June 15, 2023

• "Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State," April 14, 2023

• "The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System’s Targeted Review Deadline is Upon Us: Physicians, Groups, and other Clinicians have until October 15, 2018 to Identify and Report Errors in the Calculation of their 2017 MIPS Final Scores," October 5, 2018 
• "Medicare Advantage to Address Social Determinants of Health: An Important Step for Value-Based Care," April 18, 2018 
• "Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations Brace for Impact as Senate Tax Reform Bill Passes," December 5, 2017
• "Tax-Exempt Hospitals & Other Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations Not Immune from Federal Tax Reform," November 14, 2017 

New York Commercial Division Round-Up Blog Posts

• "Commingling and Personal Piggy Bank Leads to Summary Judgment on Veil Piercing Claims," May 13, 2014
• "Bank of America Avoids Multiple Liability By Filing Interpleader Complaint," December 21, 2010 

Media Mentions

Speaking Engagements

• "Models for Partnership," 2024 WHLC Women in Healthcare Leadership Summit, October 24, 2024
• "Value-Based Arrangements – Part 4: Safe Harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute," LexisNexis, June 2024
• "Value-Based Arrangements – Part 3: Exceptions under the Stark Law," LexisNexis, June 2024
• "Value-Based Arrangements – Part 2: How to Establish a Value-Based Enterprise," LexisNexis, June 2024
• "Value-Based Arrangements – Part 1: Building Blocks of a Value-Based Arrangement," LexisNexis, June 2024

Events

Memberships

Co-Chair and Founder, Sheppard Mullin’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative

Chair, Sheppard Mullin’s New York Recruiting Committee

Member, Sheppard Mullin’s Women Lawyers Group National Leadership Council

Co-Founder and Director, Hyper IgM Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit rare disease patient advocacy organization

Digital Media