Collaborative and exacting healthcare regulatory and licensing counsel

Anne O'Brien helps healthcare providers and entities navigate the web of regulations governing their current operations and new business initiatives. With clients including pharmacies, wholesale distributors, manufacturers, 3PLs, 503B outsourcing facilities, DMEPOS suppliers, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, behavioral health providers, pharmacists and other individual practitioners, Anne advises on:

• Regulatory compliance
• Licensure requirements
• New business models and related initiatives

Having cultivated healthy working relationships with regulators throughout the country and bringing a meticulous approach to managing the myriad regulatory obligations facing her clients, Anne delivers compliance strategies that are practical and effective. Clients appreciate Anne's collaborative style, in which she develops a deep familiarity with their business needs to inform the legal counsel she provides.

Anne is the Chicago office chair of the Health & Life Sciences Practice Group and national chair of the Licensing subgroup.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 1988)
  • Microbiology

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2018)

• University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law (J.D., 1991)

• "DEA Compliance in a New Era"
• "Hot Topics in Pharmacy Law"
• "Illinois Pharmacy Law Update"
• "Industry/Business of Pharmacy"
• "New Technology"
• "Physician Extender Collaboration & Supervision"
• "Texas Abortion Bills S.B. 4 and S.B. 8"
• "Trends in State Licensing and Medicare & Medicaid Enrollment"
• "Trends in the Regulation of Automation"
• "Trends in the Regulation of Automation"
• "Walking (With All Due Care) in a Winter Wonderland"
• 2018 Farm Bill, Technician Ratios, and Hazardous Waste Rules: Hot Topics in Pharmacy Law
• California Enacts Sweeping Pharmacy Bill Extending Board Sunset and Requiring Nonresident PIC Licensure
• Doing a Health Care Transaction in Illinois? Be Prepared to Tell the Attorney General
• Illinois Braces for the End of the PHE
• Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Extends Nonresident PIC Deadline to March 30, 2026
• Illinois Increases Lead Time for Change of Ownership of In-State Pharmacies to 90 Days, Expands Circumstances Requiring Application
• Illinois Pharmacy Law Update
• Illinois Pharmacy Law Update
• Puerto Rico Repeals Special Authorization Requirement for Nonresident Manufacturers and Distributors
• Wait, What? Palmetto GBA and Novitas Solutions Now Administer Medicare DMEPOS
• "Pharmacy Promotional Activities, Their Impact and Their Future: Coupons, Gift Cards, Reward Programs and Inducements"
• "The Compliance and Innovation Balancing Act in Pharma and Biotech"

Seminar

• 2018 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• 2019 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• 2022 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• 2024 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• 2025 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• 2026 Pharmacy Law Symposium
• Women in Leadership in Pharmacy Law