Overview
Amanda is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s New York office and is a member of the firm’s healthcare industry team.
Areas of Practice
Amanda represents healthcare and tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of transactional, regulatory and business matters. She advises clients in connection with complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and structuring value-based healthcare arrangements. In addition, Amanda routinely advises clients on matters relating to corporate governance, federal, state and local tax exemption, fraud, waste and abuse, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, voluntary disclosures, the corporate practice of medicine, and other regulatory and compliance matters.
Amanda’s clients include for-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as hospitals, academic medical centers, managed care organizations, integrated healthcare delivery systems, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, rare disease organizations, independent practice associations, physician practices, management companies, and charitable and religious organizations.
Amanda began her career as a litigator, and she brings this experience to her transactional and regulatory practice. In that regard, Amanda counsels clients on legal, strategic and practical matters involving both actual and potential disputes, and defends healthcare and tax-exempt organizations before federal, state and local government agencies in connection with audits and investigations. Amanda has also represented clients in business and commercial disputes in federal and state court, bankruptcy proceedings, and arbitration.
Amanda helped establish and co-leads Sheppard Mullin’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative and serves on Sheppard Mullin’s Women Lawyers Group National Leadership Council.
Honors
Honors
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.
Next Generation Partner - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2021-2022
Recommended Attorney - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2020-2022
Rising Star - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2020
New York Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2015-2022
Associate to Watch, Chambers USA, 2018
Insights
Articles
Labor and Employment Law Blog Posts
- "Tax Reform: Nonprofits and their Executives Brace for Impact," December 7, 2017
Healthcare Law Blog
- "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
Media Mentions
Events
Digital Media
Digital Media
Industries
Education
J.D., Fordham Law School, 2010, Moot Court, Urban Law Journal
B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, 2007
Clerkships
- Intern to the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna, U.S. Federal Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York