Overview
Ben Korte combines sophisticated transaction structuring skills with healthcare regulatory expertise and patent preparation and prosecution capabilities to guide medical practices, technology companies and other diverse businesses through complex middle-market transactions, while navigating regulatory compliance challenges that can often derail deals.
Ben is an Associate in Kaufman & Canoles' Norfolk office since 2022, where he leverages his extensive M&A experience to guide medical practices, technology companies and other diverse businesses through complex middle-market transactions including private equity platform acquisitions and rollups, healthcare joint ventures, and other strategic integrations. His cross-disciplinary approach—combining his healthcare regulatory expertise (Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law compliance), patent preparation and prosecution capabilities across AI and electronics technologies, and sophisticated transaction structuring skills that leverage his CAIA alternative investment credentials—enables him to identify value-creating opportunities and mitigate risks that single-practice attorneys often overlook, particularly in deals involving F reorganizations, rollover equity, and regulatory-sensitive industries.
Ben has extensive negotiation and transaction drafting experience and has led due diligence efforts across multiple sophisticated transactions as part of teams ranging from two to eight attorneys, including private equity platform acquisitions of cardiology practices with pre-closing F reorganizations and rollover equity, sales of ambulatory surgery centers involving joint ventures with health systems, and complex multi-state trade school divestitures with asset-rich division restructuring. His deal experience spans service line divestitures, entrepreneur-through-acquisition transactions with SBA 7(a) financing, and private equity rollup acquisitions involving representations and warranties insurance.
His healthcare practice demonstrates a deep understanding of regulatory complexity, having structured physician lease arrangements between academic medical groups and health systems for maternal fetal medicine practices, established friendly PC MSO arrangements in private equity acquisitions, and navigated compliance with Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and Medicare regulations across multiple healthcare integration opportunities, including network integrations and ancillary joint ventures.
Ben’s patent practice is concentrated in the preparation and prosecution of patents involving a wide variety of technologies including electronics, information and communication technologies, industrial technologies, and mechanical technologies, with a focus on touchscreen functionalities and artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics applications. He also provides analysis on patent validity and infringement issues and conducts patent due diligence in transactional matters.
Ben's expertise in patent preparation, prosecution, and healthcare regulation enhances his transaction work, enabling him to provide comprehensive IP and healthcare regulatory due diligence services. His CAIA designation offers unique insights into alternative investment structuring and private equity deal mechanics, distinguishing his approach to middle-market transactions in regulatory-sensitive industries.
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Representative Matters
Represented the seller as part of a team of three attorneys in the sale of a medical practice’s ambulatory surgery center asset division to a joint venture between the medical practice and a health system, taking the lead on due diligence matters and the preparation and revisions to the principal and ancillary transaction documents
Represented the seller as part of a team of four attorneys in the sale of the nonclinical assets of a behavioral health services practice to a newly formed management services organization backed by an emerging manager private equity fund, in a transaction involving the establishment of a friendly PC MSO arrangement, taking the lead on due diligence matters and the preparation and revisions to the principal transaction documents
Represented the seller as part of a team of two attorneys in the sale of the stock of a physical therapy practice to a private-equity backed buyer in a rollup transaction, taking the lead on due diligence matters and preparation, negotiation and revision of the principal and ancillary transaction documents
Represented the seller as a part of a team of eight attorneys in the sale of a large set of trade schools across the United States to a buyer backed by an emerging manager private equity fund, in a transaction involving a pre-closing restructuring that included F reorganizations and a divestiture of an asset-rich division to an affiliate of the seller, in connection with a planned gift of that asset division to a nonprofit museum, taking the lead on due diligence matters and assisting with the revising of the principal and ancillary transaction documents and the structuring and drafting of documents related to the pre-closing restructuring
Represented the seller as part of a team of two attorneys in the sale of a government contractor business providing marine towing operations and related services in a private equity rollup acquisition with representations and warranties insurance, taking the lead on due diligence matters and assisting with the revising of the principal and ancillary transaction documents
Represented an academic medical group as part of a team of two attorneys in connection with an arrangement involving the lease of certain of its employed physicians to another medical group affiliated with a health system for the purpose of staffing a maternal fetal medicine practice exclusively by such employed physicians
Represented the seller parties as part of a team of four attorneys in a private equity platform acquisition involving the sale of the seller’s non-clinical assets to a private equity-backed management services organization for sleep medicine practices in a transaction involving rollover equity and a pre-closing restructuring that included an F reorganization and the establishment of a friendly PC MSO arrangement, assisting with the revising of management services organization affiliation documents and the structuring and drafting of documents related to the pre-closing restructuring
Represented the seller parties as part of a team of six attorneys in a private equity platform acquisition wherein a physician-led organization backed by multiple private equity sponsors purchased the securities of a large cardiology practice, in a transaction involving a pre-closing F reorganization, rollover equity, and representations and warranties insurance, taking the lead on due diligence matters and assisting with the revising of the principal and ancillary transaction documents and the structuring and drafting of documents related to the F reorganization and rollover equity
Represented the seller parties as part of a team of six attorneys in a private equity platform acquisition wherein a private-equity sponsored organization purchased the securities of a medium-sized cardiology practice and a freestanding vascular care center affiliate of the practice, in a transaction involving a pre-closing F reorganization, rollover equity and representations and warranties insurance, taking the lead on due diligence matters and assisting with the structuring and drafting of documents related to an the F reorganization
Represented on the buy side as a part of a team of three attorneys, a group of service-disabled veterans in an entrepreneur-through-acquisition transaction of a service-disabled veteran-owned small business providing support to the Department of Defense wherein the acquisition was predominantly financed by a 7(a) loan from the Small Business Administration, assisting with the drafting and revising of principal and ancillary transaction documents
Represented the seller as a part of a team of two attorneys with respect to a divestiture of substantially all of the assets of one of its three core businesses involving pest extermination services through a sale to a private equity-backed buyer in a rollup transaction, taking the lead on due diligence matters and assisting with the revising of the principal and ancillary transaction documents
Recognition & Honors
Honors & Recognitions
Best Lawyers in America; "Ones to Watch," 2026
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)
University of Richmond Law Review; Manuscripts Editor
Portsmouth Circuit Court; Law Clerk, 2020-2022
Press & Publications
News
Community & Professional
Associations
Virginia Bar Association; Health Law Section Council, Young Lawyer Representative
Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association
Association for Corporate Growth, Richmond Chapter
Credentials
Education
University of Virginia; B.A., 2013
University of Richmond School of Law; J.D., cum laude, 2020
University of Richmond; MBA, 2020
Court Admissions
United States Trademark and Patent Office
Beyond the Law
In his free time, Ben enjoys playing drums in a local rock band, cooking, and pursuing the WSET Diploma in Wines credential from the Wine Spirits and Education Trust.
