Maynard Nexsen is pleased to announce Steve McPheeters and Zac Goozée have returned to the firm as members of the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate and Business Transactions and Private Equity & Venture Capital teams. Steve and Zac have spent the past four years with HighFive Healthcare, a specialty dental partnership organization and Maynard Nexsen client. Steve and Zac bring a unique perspective to the team and further strengthen the M&A team’s capabilities across healthcare and a variety of other industries.
Returning as a Shareholder, Steve served as Chief Legal Officer at HighFive Healthcare and has experience in a wide variety of M&A engagements, with an emphasis on healthcare-related transactions. He works with medical and dental groups, health systems/hospitals, durable medical equipment providers, prescription benefit managers, skilled nursing and behavioral health facilities, hospice care providers, healthcare IT companies and other healthcare-related ventures and their sponsors in both buy-side and sell-side M&A, including private equity platform and bolt-on transactions, strategic acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and other combinations. Steve also has extensive M&A expertise in industries beyond healthcare.
Zac, Of Counsel, is also returning to Maynard Nexsen after serving as Vice President of Legal at HighFive Healthcare, where he supported the company’s growth through strategic acquisitions and operational enhancements. Zac’s broad experience in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate legal matters allows him to provide comprehensive M&A guidance to the firm’s clients in the healthcare sector and beyond.
“We’re very happy to welcome Steve and Zac back to Maynard Nexsen,” said John Dulin, Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions practice group. “Their deep experience in M&A—including their recent experience working in a rapidly growing healthcare organization in HighFive Healthcare—strengthens our ability to serve clients in the fast‑growing healthcare M&A market and other specialized industries. They return with a unique industry and business perspective, and we’re excited about the momentum and insight they bring back to our team.”
Steve received a B.A. in English from Auburn University in 1994 and a J.D. from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1997, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Alabama Law Review. Steve earned recognition as a Leading Practitioner in Healthcare Law by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, has been included in The Best Lawyers In America in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Health Care Law and Corporate Law, and holds a preeminent AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell.
Zac graduated from Auburn University in 2014 with a B.S.B.A. in Finance and a minor in Political Science. Zac then received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, Articles Editor for the Virginia Law & Business Review, and actively involved with the University of Virginia Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.