Epstein Becker Green Helps Finalize Key Step in Historic Merger of New Jersey Hospital Systems

Epstein Becker Green, as lead counsel, advised Barnabas Health, a seven-hospital system based in West Orange, New Jersey, on the health regulatory, organizational design, and corporate transactional aspects of a merger with Robert Wood Johnson, a New Brunswick, New Jersey-based system with four hospitals. In July 2015, these two leading health systems signed the definitive agreement that outlines the merger between Barnabas Health and Robert Wood Johnson. The transaction will create New Jersey’s largest health care system—and one of the largest in the nation—to be known as “RWJ Barnabas Health.” This combination would create a system with combined annual operating revenue of $4.5 billion and 30,000 employees. The merger completed in 2016.