Your Team at the Ready
Our Team
SHAREHOLDER
Randi Nathanson
Randi joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Randi founded and led The Nathanson Group PLLC from 1993-2022 and is committed to providing the highest quality of legal services to her clients. She has been practicing law since 1979 after graduating from George Washington University and has since specialized in the representation of health care clients in transactional and licensure matters. Randi has a broad range of experience handling transactions involving the purchase, sale, leasing, and management of nursing homes, hospitals, and assisted living facilities, public and private financing transactions, such as commercial loan transactions, revolving credit agreements, and tax-exempt bond financings, and dealing with state regulators on issues related to licensure, certification, and certificates of need. Randi oversees the work of the Approvalign® team with the goal of ensuring that transactions undertaken by the team are processed with efficiency and accuracy. Randi has contacts throughout the U.S.
SHAREHOLDER
Carin Marney
Carin serves as the lead attorney when Lane Powell clients require licensure opinions to satisfy the requirements of a lender providing financing for a transaction. Carin has been a Shareholder at Lane Powell since 2008 and is the co-chair of the Lane Powell Senior Living & Long Term Care industry team and thus well versed in the licensure requirements of the senior housing industry.
COUNSEL TO THE FIRM
Katherine Jackson
Kate represents health care clients in regulatory and licensure matters. She manages the regulatory aspects of acquisition transactions for a variety of senior living clients, drives licensing work for senior living facilities nationally (including local and national skilled nursing, assisted living and senior care companies), and handles state and federal regulatory matters impacting those same health care clients. She is also skilled in drafting Resident Agreements, Arbitration Agreements, Polices & Procedures, and related documents for senior living operators.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE SENIOR COORDINATOR
Aishia Dueno
Aishia joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Aishia started with The Nathanson Group PLLC in the spring of 2017. She worked for Summit Healthcare Alliance before that. Aishia graduated with a degree in Healthcare Administration & Policy from Creighton University and has an MBA from Seattle University. Aishia is a Licensing Compliance Senior Coordinator and heads the Licensure Division of the Approvalign® team. In that role she assists clients with a range of long term care facility licensing projects including applications for changes of ownership, changes of manager, and various ancillary permits, as well as supervising the work of the other Licensing Compliance Coordinators and Licensing Compliance Assistants on the Approvalign® team.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE SENIOR COORDINATOR
Shanda London
Shanda joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Shanda started at The Nathanson Group PLLC in 1993. Shanda has extensive knowledge of all areas of complex real estate transactions and corporate law. Her current area of focus is licensing compliance for long term care facilities, including document preparation and submittal in accordance with local, county, state, and federal laws, and ensuring that such facilities are in compliance with all required permits and licenses. More specifically, Shanda’s work includes the preparation and processing of state health care licensure applications and local and state ancillary permit applications including beauty salon, elevator, alarm, and CLIA permits. Shanda is also skilled at analyzing whether a transaction requires licensing approval and what ownership disclosure is required in connection with each particular licensure or ancillary permit application. Shanda heads the Special Projects Division and brings over 20 years of knowledge and experience to the team.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Justin Ceffalo
Justin joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Justin started with The Nathanson Group PLLC in 2013. Prior to joining The Nathanson Group, Justin had a robust background in financial services and patent law support. Justin initially used his technical and administrative skills to help build out the Approvatrack® database and now is a Licensing Compliance Coordinator. In that role, he assists clients with a range of long term care facility licensing projects including applications for changes of ownership, changes of manager, and various ancillary permits.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Josh Cohen
Josh joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Josh started with The Nathanson Group PLLC in 2019. Before joining The Nathanson Group, Josh completed a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Washington and interned with UW CoMotion to evaluate innovative technologies, intellectual property, and the regulatory challenges associated with bringing these to market. Josh is a Licensing Compliance Coordinator. In that role, he assists clients with a range of long term care facility licensing projects including applications for changes of ownership, changes of manager, and various ancillary permits.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Nicole Reddy
Nicole joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. She started with the Nathanson Group PLLC in 2021. Nicole has a strong health care background, having worked for eight years as a Pharmacy Technician and three years as an Assisted Living Facility Office Manager before joining the Approvalign® team. She is driven by passion and takes pride in providing the best work possible. Nicole is a Licensing Compliance Coordinator and, in that role, provides support to the Approvalign® team by, among other things, researching and applying for needed ancillary licenses and permits.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Ada Calderwood
Ada joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. This is after spending 7 years working for a senior housing operator in their Legal Department, and she rejoined the Nathanson Group PLLC in February of 2022. In her role as a Licensing Compliance Coordinator, Ada assists clients with a range of long term care facility licensing projects including applications for changes of ownership, changes of manager, Medicaid research, and various ancillary permits.
LICENSING COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Rebecca Davis
Rebecca joined Lane Powell in June 2022 when the attorneys and staff of The Nathanson Group moved to Lane Powell. Rebecca had been at The Nathanson Group PLLC since January 2022. Before that, Rebecca spent three years working for a senior housing operator in their Legal Department. In her role as a Licensing Compliance Coordinator, Rebecca assists clients with a range of long term care facility licensing projects, including applications for changes of ownership, changes of manager, Medicaid research, and various ancillary permits.
“Our partnership with the Approvalign® team provides us with an invaluable addition to our transactional team as we know we can always rely on them for accurate information about, and assistance in successfully navigating, the regulatory process in a state as we head into a new transaction.”
— MATT McCONKIE | Tunbridge Peak