Paul Hastings Partner, Michael McKinnon, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — September 1, 2009 — Michael McKinnon, a Partner in the Corporate Department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Paul Hastings is a leading global law firm with offices in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., providing innovative legal solutions to financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Mike advises clients in a broad array of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt financings, with a primary focus on the healthcare industry. He is also a member of the Business Law and Health Law sections of the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and Orange County Bar Association.

Mike has assisted both companies and private-equity sponsors in their acquisitions and sales of various healthcare providers, including diagnostic imaging providers, PPO networks, diabetic supply businesses, clinical trial companies, home health companies and urgent care centers. His recent healthcare transactions include: Representing affiliate of GE Healthcare Financial Services with respect to its equity investment in Sunrise Aston Gardens Joint Venture, which manages high-end senior living facilities in Florida; Representing clinical trial company Vince & Associates Clinical Research and CRO Synteract Holdings in sale to private equity firm Gryphon Investors. Mike also worked on the prior acquisition of Vince and Synteract by private equity firm Celerity Partners; Representing private equity firm Excellere Partners in purchases of urgent care clinic operator MedExpress Urgent Care Holdings and interventional pain management provider Advanced Pain Management; and Representing private equity firm KRG Capital Partners in its acquisitions of CROs and clinical trial companies, PRACS Institute, Allied Research, Diabetes and Glandular Disease Associates and Ba Research. These companies now form Cetero Research, one of the largest CROs in the U.S.

Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mike served as in-house counsel for publicly traded Apria Healthcare and InSight Health Services Corp., with primary responsibility for the companies’ acquisitions, joint ventures and securities matters. Mike earned his BS degree from Cornell University in 1990, and his JD, cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1994.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or medical device), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s Facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange, San Francisco and Santa Clara County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org.