Brian Heaton

Brian Heaton serves as Chair of Krieg DeVault’s Business, Acquisitions, and Securities Practice Group and is also a long-time member of the firm's Health Care Practice Group.  His practice is primarily focused on providing general corporate and business law advice and assisting start-up and established business and health care provider organizations with everyday operations and extraordinary transactions.

Mr. Heaton’s practice includes representing both sellers and purchasers in complex transactions involving stock and asset sales, mergers, dissolutions, joint ventures, affiliations, licensing arrangements, and other restructurings.  He frequently serves as external general counsel for his clients and has advised clients as to general corporate governance issues, transfers of ownership, buy-sell agreements, choice of entity decisions, fiduciary duties among owners and management, antitrust and competitive analysis (including assistance with Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-notification filings), and other matters.  Mr. Heaton's experience also includes structuring transactions to comply with state and federal licensing and certification requirements, corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and regulations unique to the health care industry.

Mr. Heaton is active in numerous professional organizations, including serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association.  Mr. Heaton is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his law degree and Masters of Business Administration from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Kelley School of Business.