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Sophia Temis

Associate

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+1.212.692.6279

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Sophia focuses her practice on health care transactions and advising health care organizations on a broad spectrum of regulatory and governance matters. She regularly negotiates transaction terms, drafts purchase agreements, conducts due diligence, and prepares corporate organizational documents, employment agreements, and service agreements. Her practice also involves negotiating clinical trial agreements on behalf of health care institutions and advising clients on regulatory matters involving licensure and certification requirements. Sophia represents physicians, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and other for-profit and nonprofit health care clients.

Prior to joining Mintz, Sophia was an associate at a law firm that specialized in serving the health care sector, where she advised health care clients on a range of business, regulatory and transactional matters.

While earning her JD, Sophia served as a legal intern at a civil litigation firm in New York, the Office of the General Counsel at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the New York Legal Assistance Group. In law school, she served as an executive editor for the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice and volunteered with the school’s Mediation Clinic. She also received a Jacob Burns Medal - Faculty Award.

Sophia earned a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Health Policy and Management. Before law school, she interned as a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and as a project associate for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation with the NYU Advanced Project in Healthcare Policy and Management.

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Sophia Temis

Associate

New York