Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising HCA Healthcare on its $1.5 billion acquisition of Mission Health, a nonprofit North Carolina health system.

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services, operating 178 locally managed hospitals and approximately 1,800 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom.

The Debevoise team is led by partners Jennifer L. Chu and Kevin Rinker and includes partners Peter A. Furci, Maura Kathleen Monaghan and Elizabeth Pagel Serebransky; counsel Stuart Hammer and Jacob W. Stahl; and associates Melanie Burke, Simone S. Hicks, Andrew G. Jamieson, Jose Angel Lamarque III, Thomas Lopez and Nicholas C. Scholten.

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