M. Ann Huckstep
Of Counsel
Health Care
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PRACTICE AREAS
Birmingham
P 205.250.5009
F 205.250.5034
"I help clients with creative,
practical and cost effective
solutions, which might be legal,
legislative or a well-placed
phone call. I make it my
business to know the regulators
and others who can impact
my client's business."
Ann Huckstep joined the firm in 2003 when she helped guide the merger
between Lange Simpson, where she had spent her career, and Adams and
Reese. She serves as a member of the firm’s Health Care, Real Estate,
Corporate/Securities/Mergers and Acquisitions and Economic Development
teams. Ann was a point person in the firm’s expansion of the Nashville and
Memphis markets and was instrumental in heading up the development of the
firm’s health care practice. Ann has also recently served as the Chair of the
firm’s Executive Committee and as the Partner in Charge of the Birmingham
office.
Health Care
Corporate / Securities
Economic Development
Real Estate
INDUSTRIES
Banking / Financial Services
Financial Services
Government
Health Care
Real Estate
For more than 25 years, Ann has guided companies in cutting-edge issues in
health care, real estate and corporate law. Hospitals, medical service
companies, physicians and other health care providers rely on her to provide
substantive advice on regulatory compliance, certificate of need, accreditation,
business transactions, labor matters, antitrust issues, governance issues,
strategic planning and more. In her real estate work, companies rely on Ann’s
negotiation skills, strategic planning assistance and her assistance with
brokerage, leasing and property management activities. Ann’s corporate clients
seek her experience for their strategic, financial and compensation planning.
Her other significant contributions include:
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Serving as lead counsel for the largest hospital system in Alabama in the
sale of its not-for-profit flagship hospital to a major, publicly traded hospital
company. Ann then helped guide the hospital system through the taxexempt, antitrust and regulatory issues in connection with a whole hospital
joint venture between the two health care systems for the ultimate
ownership and operation of the hospital.
Assisting a real estate company in all aspects of the development,
financing and leasing of the first new office building in downtown
Birmingham in many years.
Helping a publicly traded hospital company obtain an Alabama State Health
Plan Adjustment for a new hospital in Madison, Alabama. This was a highprofile, hotly-contested case in a “certificate of need” state in which no new
hospital adjustment had been approved in many years. It involved a legal
battle to the Alabama Supreme Court and alternative strategic solutions,
including corporate, real estate, regulatory, legislative and media.
Reaching many “first female” milestones, including first female Partner at
Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville and first female member and later
Chair of the Executive Committee of Lange Simpson, a top 10 Alabama Law
Firm
Ann has been listed in Best Lawyers® in Health Care Law, Mergers &
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University Law School,
J.D., 1978
University of Mississippi, B.B.A.,
1975
BAR ADMISSIONS
Alabama
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS
Member, Alabama Hospital
Association
Member, Alabama State Bar
Association
Member, American Bar
Association (Health and Business
Sections)
Member, American Health
Lawyers Association
Member, Birmingham Bar
Association
YMCA of Birmingham - Former
Chair, Board of Trustees
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
Executive Committee
Living in Limbo, Inc., Founder and
Board Chair
Acquisitions Law since 2005 and also in Alabama/Mid-South Super Lawyers®
since 2009. In 2015, Ann was named as a BMetro Magazine "Lifetime
Achiever" in the class of “Top Flight Lawyers.” She has been awarded such
honors as Birmingham Business Journal's Businesswoman of the Year Award
for 2007, and, also in 2007, the Birmingham Bar Association’s “Nina Miglionico:
Paving the Way” Leadership Award, given annually to a lawyer who has
achieved professional excellence, assisted women lawyers through mentoring,
inspired women lawyers through role modeling and provided opportunities for
the advancement of women lawyers. She was also named among the
Birmingham Business Journal’s Top 10 Businesswomen for 2005.
Of those she admires, Maya Angelou and Kathryn Tucker Windham, a master
storyteller, author of 24 books, playwright, accomplished photographer and
popular public television and radio personality, top the list. Ann views Ms.
Angelou as one of the wisest people on earth and Ms. Windham as the
greatest storyteller of our time.
When Ann isn’t assisting her clients, she enjoys being an international traveler,
storyteller, musician, dog lover and loyal friend. She likes to relax with friends at
her cabin at nearby Smith Lake and spends time on her 28-foot pontoon boat,
the AfterMath, decked out with a bar, a grill, and a palm tree.
OTHER DISTINCTIONS
AV® Peer Review Rated by
Martindale-Hubbell
"Top Flight Lawyers" - Lifetime
Achievement Award, B-Metro
Magazine, 2015
Businesswoman of the Year Birmingham Business Journal
2007
Nina Miglionico: Paving the Way
Leadership Award - Birmingham
Bar Association 2007
Top 10 Birmingham
Businesswomen - Birmingham
Business Journal 2005
Best Lawyers® - Health Care
Law, Mergers and Acquisitions
Law, Securities/Capital Markets
Law, Securities Regulation
Alabama and Mid-South Super
Lawyers® - Health Care
Smart Award - Top Innovative
Women Business Leaders,
Women's Fund of Greater
Birmingham, 2012
“Top Attorneys” - B-Metro and
BHM Biz, 2016, 2017
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