Healthcare specialist joins Rödl & Partner after a decade in-house

Klaus-Georg Baier brings 16 years of Schön Klinik experience to Munich - Rödl & Partner gains M&A and compliance expertise.

Industry change after a corporate career

After more than two decades of entrepreneurial responsibility, Klaus-Georg Baier is returning to the consulting side. The 56-year-old lawyer is moving from Heuking to Rödl & Partner, where he will strengthen the interdisciplinary healthcare practice at the Munich office. His appointment marks a strategic expansion of the previously smaller healthcare consultancy. Baier's career path reflects the classic in-house career path: After joining Baker & McKenzie in corporate and capital markets law, he had a four and a half year intermezzo at Siemens. In 2007, he moved to Schön Klinik, where he held various management positions for 16 years - most recently as General Counsel with responsibility for legal and data protection issues.

Comprehensive health law expertise

During his time at Schön Klinik, Baier developed a broad expert profile ranging from contract physician law to hospital law and M&A transactions. His expertise also includes compliance structures, data protection management and employment law issues in the healthcare sector - a combination that is particularly valuable in the complex regulatory landscape of the healthcare sector.

Norman Lenger-Bauchowitz, Head of the Healthcare Practice Group at Rödl & Partner, emphasizes the strategic importance of the addition. Clients would benefit in particular from Baier's experience in structuring the provision of medical services and providing legal support for transformation processes. The interdisciplinary interface between law, tax and corporate management considerably strengthens the range of advisory services.

Practice group expansion in niche segment

Rödl's healthcare consulting services address various healthcare industry players: hospitals, retirement and nursing homes as well as foundations receive both legal and tax advice. A particular focus is on insolvency advice - a segment that is becoming increasingly relevant in view of the tense financial situation of many healthcare facilities.

Baier's appointment signals Rödl's ambition to expand the previously smaller healthcare practice into a fully-fledged sector competence. His in-house experience enables him to provide practical advice on complex regulatory and transformation challenges in the German healthcare system.

The timing of the change is strategic: The healthcare industry is facing fundamental changes due to digitalization, demographic change and refinancing pressure - developments that require specialist legal and tax advice.