Experience
Health & Health Care Law
Real Estate
Business Organizations Transactions
State Bar Admissions
Alabama
Education
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1978
Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
B.B.A., University of Mississippi, 1975
Professional Memberships and Associations:
Member, American Bar Association (Health and Business Sections)
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Member, Alabama State Bar Association
Member, Birmingham Bar Association
Member, Alabama Hospital Association
Honors and Awards:
Best Lawyers in America (Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
"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
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M. Ann Huckstep is an accomplished attorney in Adams and Reese’s Special Business Services practice group in the areas of health care, real estate, and business organizations, including transactions, and served as chairwoman of the firm’s Executive Committee from 2007-2008. 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 a broad range of legal issues, including regulatory compliance, certificate of need, accreditation, business transactions, labor matters, antitrust issues, corporate matters, governance issues, strategic planning and more. Real estate companies rely on her advice, negotiation skills, and strategic planning assistance in their development, brokerage, leasing, and property management activities. Ann is a trusted advisor to corporations in strategic, financial, and compensation planning.
Ann has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Health Care Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law) since 2005. Ann has also been awarded such honors as Birmingham Business Journal's "Businesswoman of the Year" Award for 2007, the Birmingham Bar Association's "Nina Miglionico: Paving the Way" Leadership Award in 2007, and was named among the Birmingham Business Journal's "Top 10 Businesswomen" for 2005.
Ann played a key role in the following representations:
Ann served as lead counsel for the largest hospital system in the State in the sale of its not-for-profit flagship hospital to a major, publicly traded hospital company. Ann then helped guide the healthcare system through the tax-exempt, 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.
Ann assisted 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.
Ann helped a publicly traded hospital company obtain an Alabama State Health Plan Adjustment for a new hospital in Madison, Alabama. This was a high-profile, 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.
Ann is a member of the firm’s Health Care Team, its Real Estate Practice Team, its Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Team, and its Economic Development Practice Team. Ann is not only a trusted advisor to her clients; she also uses her business and counseling skills to guide her clients in strategic planning. Additionally, Ann is a leader in business and in the community. After graduating near the top of her class at Vanderbilt University Law School, she joined Lange Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, one of Alabama's oldest and largest law firms, and later became the first female chairperson of its Executive Committee and the first female to chair a "top ten" law firm in Alabama. Ann led Lange Simpson for two terms and sat on its Executive Committee for four terms. In 2003, she helped guide the firm into its merger with Adams and Reese.
Additionally, Ann has several other "first female" milestones. She was the first female:
Partner, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville (1984)
Chairman, Board of Trustees, Christ Church (United Methodist) (1987)
Member, Top 10 Alabama Law Firm Executive Committee (1992)
Director, Birmingham Rotary Club Board of Directors (1992-1994)
Chairman, Board of Management, Downtown Birmingham YMCA (1993)
Chairman, Top 10 Alabama Law Firm Executive Committee (2000)
Ann earned her Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from the University of Mississippi. Also, she has completed the coursework for a Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Publications
Corporate Law for the Healthcare Provider: Organization, Operations, Merger and Bankruptcy (Co-Author), National Health Lawyers Association Focus Series, 1993.
Civic and Community Memberships
Chairman’s Circle, Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce (2005-)
Director, United Way of Central Alabama (2006-2008)
Vice President of Club Service and Director, Birmingham Rotary Club (2007-2008)
Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International
Chair, Board of Management, Downtown Birmingham YMCA (1993)
Board of Trustees, Birmingham Metro YMCA (2009-)
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