Linas J. Grikis

Linas Grikis is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office. 

Areas of Practice

Linas relies on his years of experience to routinely provide practical assistance to clients in the healthcare industry on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He regularly serves as lead counsel in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other healthcare transactions. His experience includes the representation of institutional healthcare providers, including academic medical centers, hospitals, health systems and integrated delivery systems, as well as large physician groups, specialty providers and healthcare private equity firms. 

Recently, he has represented, as lead counsel, several regional community hospitals in developing affiliations with multi-billion dollar healthcare systems. He has also represented, as lead counsel, a nationally recognized not-for-profit healthcare system in connection with its affiliation with a regional hospital. He has also represented an academic medical center in connection with several large strategic transactions.

In addition to his deep transactional experience, Linas also regularly advises hospital and health systems and other healthcare clients on regulatory compliance with licensure, accreditation, other state and federal regulatory matters, corporate governance and compliance issues. 

Linas writes and lectures regularly on health law and corporate matters. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola University–Chicago, where he teaches the health law section of the Law School’s legal writing program. 

Honors

• "Restructuring of the Year” ($50M to $100M) - Co-Lead Counsel, The M&A Advisor, 2025
• Ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare, Illinois, 2023-2024
• "Lawyer of the Year" in Chicago, Illinois for Health Care Law, Best Lawyers, 2021
• Health Care Law, Best Lawyers in America, 2013-2025
• Health Care Law, Leading Lawyers, 2015
• Honored by the University of Tulsa College of Law as the 2006 Distinguished Practitioner in Residence

Speaking Engagements

• "The Journey to Health Care Equity: Looking Forward with AMCs," Spotlight on AMCs Series, May 16, 2023
• "Intellectual Property Monetization Strategies for Academic Medical Centers," Spotlight on AMCs Series, April 18, 2023
• "Hot Topics in Big Data," Spotlight on AMCs Series, April 4, 2023
• "Structuring Relationships to Further Mission," Spotlight on AMCs Series, March 21, 2023
• "AMCs and Clinical Research: Addressing Research Misconduct Risk," Spotlight on AMCs Series, March 7, 2023
• "Relationship Building: Use of Brand in Teaching, Research and Clinical Care Arrangements," July 22, 2021

Memberships

• Chicago Bar Association
• American Health Law Association
• Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys
  • Board Member and Immediate Past Chair 
  • Member of the Mentoring Committee