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Healthcare & Health-Tech Legal Counsel, Compliance, Transactions & Cross-Border Strategy

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Problems We Solve

Healthcare contract that doesn't reflect complexity

Contracts Built for Healthcare Complexity

Generic contracts miss critical healthcare terms, creating compliance gaps and costly rework.

Healthcare-Specific Contract Frameworks

Purpose-built agreements covering data use, privacy, business associate terms and vendor risk from day one.

Regulatory Requirements Blocking Market Entry

Privacy, data and CMS requirements delay launches and drain resources.

A Clear Path Through Healthcare Regulations

Complex frameworks translated into actionable compliance roadmaps that move you forward.

Digital Health Products Lacking Legal Footing

AI, telehealth, and digital health operate in fast-moving regulatory territory with high stakes.

Legal Framework Built for Digital Health

Licensing, data privacy, AI governance, and regulatory compliance, built to scale.

No Legal Roadmap for U.S. Market Entry

International healthcare companies face unfamiliar U.S. regulatory and operational terrain.

End-to-End U.S. Market Entry Support

Comprehensive legal guidance for global healthcare companies entering the U.S.

Data Ownership and Privacy Risks in Health Tech

Unclear data terms expose you to privacy liability, breaches, and partnership risk.

Airtight Data Privacy & Ownership Agreements

Contracts that clearly define data rights, privacy, and security at every layer.

Compliance Gaps Threatening Investor Confidence

Investors now scrutinize data, privacy and AI governance during diligence.

Compliance Infrastructure That Builds Trust

Frameworks that demonstrate readiness to investors, regulators, and strategic partners.

Over-Reliance on Costly Outside Legal Counsel

Premium outside-counsel rates for routine matters drain budget and slow decisions.

Embedded Legal Leadership Without the Overhead

Fractional GC and CCO services that integrate senior expertise into your team.

Teams Unprepared for Compliance Obligations

HR and procurement teams unknowingly create liability and over-rely on legal.

Compliance Training That Builds Internal Capacity

Lawriocity® programs equip your team to manage risk and operate compliantly.

Cross-Border Corruption & FCPA Exposure

Distributors, agents, and government touchpoints abroad create FCPA, UKBA, and OECD anti-bribery risk that boards can no longer ignore.

Anti-Corruption Counsel That Travels With You

Risk-tiered third-party diligence, contracting controls, and DOJ-aligned program design built for multinationals and cross-border deals.

Whistleblower & Misconduct Allegations

Hotline complaints, accounting concerns, and executive misconduct allegations demand privileged, board-credible investigations, fast.

Privileged Internal Investigations

Board-level scoping, witness strategy, and written reporting calibrated for regulators, audit committees, and litigation use.

DOJ, SEC & Foreign-Regulator Inquiries

Parallel U.S. and foreign government inquiries strain in-house teams and put privilege, disclosure, and reputation at risk.

Coordinated Cross-Border Enforcement Defense

Unified strategy across DOJ, SEC, and foreign regulators, managing productions, witness preparation, and resolution posture end-to-end.

Disputes That Escalate Before a Strategy Is Set

A demand letter or agency charge turns into litigation because no one managed it early.

Dispute Strategy From the First Letter

Early assessment, negotiation and, where needed, defense led by experienced litigation counsel.

Workplace Complaints Handled Without a Record

Informal handling of allegations leaves no defensible record when a decision is challenged.

Workplace Investigations Built to Hold Up

Independent investigations with a clear scope, documented interviews and findings you can act on.

Retaliation Risk After Someone Speaks Up

Routine decisions about an employee who raised a concern can look like retaliation.

Employment Decisions Reviewed Before They Land

Discipline, reassignment and separation decisions checked against the record before they are made.

AI Adopted Faster Than It Is Governed

Teams deploy AI tools before anyone decides what data they may use or who reviews the output.

AI Governance That Fits How You Work

Policies, review steps and vendor terms that let AI projects move forward with clear accountability.

Acquisitions That Inherit Hidden Liabilities

Buyers take on billing, licensing and data exposure that diligence never surfaced.

Diligence That Finds Risk Before Closing

Regulatory, contract and data diligence, with deal terms that allocate what the review finds.

Outsourcing Partners Without Oversight

Outsourced functions run on thin contracts, with no one measuring performance or risk.

Outsourcing Selected, Contracted and Governed

Counsel from vendor selection through renewal, with terms and governance that protect the business.

Culture Risk Building Where Hotlines Stay Quiet

Misconduct surfaces late in regions where employees do not trust the reporting channels.

Early Warning Across Every Region

A structured program that surfaces misconduct and culture risk while there is still time to act.

Licensing Gaps Across States and Markets

Expansion stalls when pharmacy, telehealth and entity licenses lag behind the business plan.

Licensure and Market Access, Handled

Multi-state licensing, market access and reporting obligations mapped and managed as you grow.

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Our Practice Areas

Transactional & Corporate

Project-Based

M&A, joint ventures, licensing, and strategic transactions for healthcare and health tech companies.

Ideal for:

  • Scaling healthcare & health tech companies
  • Early-stage startups with recurring legal needs
  • Organizations entering the U.S. market
  • Companies seeking cost-effective senior counsel
What You Get:

Proactive legal guidance aligned with your business goals, helping leadership navigate complex decisions in healthcare and health technology with confidence and clarity.

Contract drafting, review, and negotiation across healthcare agreements, vendor contracts, licensing deals, and corporate transactions. We handle the legal work so your team can focus on growth.

Navigate data privacy and AI rules, state licensing requirements, and other healthcare-specific compliance obligations. We keep your organization ahead of regulatory risk.

Legal support for fundraising rounds, board governance, and expansion into new markets, including U.S. market entry for international health technology companies.

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Regulatory & Compliance

Monthly Fee

CMS, data privacy and AI guidance for healthcare organizations navigating complex compliance obligations.

Ideal for:

  • Health tech companies with data, privacy and AI obligations
  • Scaling organizations with growing compliance exposure
  • Companies entering the U.S. healthcare market
  • Digital health, SaaS, AI & data-driven platforms
What You Get:

Build or strengthen your compliance infrastructure with policies, procedures, and frameworks tailored specifically to the healthcare and health technology sector.

Ongoing management of health data privacy (HIPAA included), AI governance and breach response preparedness, keeping your organization protected and audit-ready.

Identify and mitigate compliance gaps before they become enforcement issues, investor concerns, or barriers to market growth.

Develop compliance documentation and deliver team training that embeds a culture of compliance across your entire organization.

Act as a senior compliance resource integrated directly into your operations, providing the oversight and accountability of a full-time CCO at a fraction of the cost.

Compliance programs built specifically for healthcare, health tech, SaaS, AI, and data-driven platforms, addressing the unique regulatory demands of digital health.

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Digital Health & Technology

Project-Based

Legal support for digital health products, telehealth platforms, health IT, and health data.

Ideal for:

  • Companies with a specific legal project or transaction
  • Organizations assessing regulatory or market entry risk
  • Health tech companies building a digital health product
  • International companies entering the U.S. healthcare market
What You Get:

Contract drafting and review, M&A support, corporate governance, and business structuring for healthcare companies at every stage of growth.

Navigate HIPAA and data privacy obligations, state licensing, and healthcare-specific regulatory compliance with experienced legal guidance.

Legal frameworks, privacy and data agreements, IP protections, and compliance support for digital health products, SaaS platforms, and AI-driven health solutions.

End-to-end legal support for healthcare and health technology companies entering or expanding in the U.S. market, from regulatory strategy to corporate formation.

Engage us on a per-project basis with no long-term commitment required. We scope each engagement to your specific legal need and timeline.

Every engagement is handled by attorneys with deep healthcare and health technology experience, no generalists, no learning curve.

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International Market Entry

Project-Based

Cross-border legal strategy for healthcare and health tech companies expanding into or out of the U.S.

Ideal for:

  • Foreign healthcare and health tech companies
  • European and APAC digital health firms
  • Medical device and diagnostics exporters
  • International companies with U.S. partnerships
What You Get:

A review of your business model, products and services against U.S. healthcare requirements, before you commit capital to the market.

The right U.S. structure, whether LLC, C-Corp or branch, with governance built for a regulated healthcare business.

A clear plan for the federal and state rules that apply from your first U.S. customer, sequenced by launch priority.

Your GDPR program mapped against U.S. health data rules, so one set of data practices can work in both markets.

Distribution, SaaS and vendor agreements drafted to U.S. standards and the terms U.S. buyers expect to see.

State licensing and telehealth requirements reviewed before you serve patients or providers across state lines.

Counsel on the first U.S. pilots, partnerships and enterprise deals, where early terms tend to set the pattern.

Senior counsel on call after launch, as your U.S. business grows and new states, products and partners come on.

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Data, Privacy & AI

Project-Based

Health data privacy, AI governance and data rights in commercial deals for healthcare and health technology companies.

Ideal for:

  • Health technology companies handling sensitive health data
  • Providers and health systems adopting AI tools and data partnerships
  • Payers and health plans managing member data across vendors
  • International companies meeting U.S. health data rules
What You Get:

Program design, risk assessments, policies and workforce training covering HIPAA and state privacy laws.

Data use, licensing, business associate and vendor terms, and data diligence in financings and acquisitions.

AI use policies, model and vendor review, transparency and documentation, and counsel on AI features in clinical and payer settings.

Response plans, tabletop exercises, and counsel through investigation, notification and regulator contact.

A clear map of the federal and state privacy laws that reach your data, including consumer health data laws.

Practical training for product, engineering and operations teams on handling health data and AI tools.

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Employment & Workplace Risk

Project-Based

Workplace investigations, executive matters, employment decisions and culture risk for healthcare organizations and their boards.

Ideal for:

  • Hospitals, health systems and physician groups
  • Health technology companies scaling their workforce
  • Payers and health plans
  • Boards and executive teams reviewing allegations against senior leaders
What You Get:

Complaints of harassment, discrimination, misconduct and retaliation, investigated independently with findings and recommendations.

Sensitive allegations involving senior leaders, handled with discretion and a record the board can rely on.

Review of discipline, termination and separation agreements before they are finalized.

Review of decisions affecting employees who have raised concerns, before those decisions are made.

Response to agency charges and demand letters, with early resolution where it serves the business.

Our Global Workforce Risk & Culture Assessment program, to find issues across regions before they become matters.

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FCPA & Anti-Corruption

Project-Based

Anti-corruption compliance, third-party diligence, and enforcement response for companies operating across borders.

Ideal for:

  • Multinational corporations
  • Private equity & portfolio companies
  • Compliance & legal leadership
  • Companies facing inquiries
What You Get:

Comprehensive review of corruption risk by jurisdiction, business unit, and third-party channel, with prioritized remediation recommendations.

Risk-based diligence playbooks, contract clauses, and ongoing monitoring frameworks for distributors, agents, consultants, and joint-venture partners.

Privileged investigations led by a former federal prosecutor, including witness interviews, document review, and reporting to boards or audit committees.

Counsel on DOJ and SEC interactions, voluntary disclosure decisions, monitorship engagement, and negotiated resolutions.

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Investigations

Project-Based

Independent internal, government, and cross-border investigations, led by a former federal prosecutor.

Ideal for:

  • Boards & audit committees
  • General counsel & chief compliance officers
  • Multinational companies
  • Private equity & portfolio companies
What You Get:

Privileged investigations of fraud, misconduct, and compliance allegations, including witness interviews, document review, and board-level reporting.

Defense and coordination across DOJ, SEC, and foreign regulator inquiries, including subpoena response, document production, and witness interviews.

Multi-jurisdiction investigation strategy covering privilege, data privacy, local counsel coordination, and consistent reporting across regions.

Investigation reports, remediation plans, and strategic communications support designed to satisfy regulators and protect the company.

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Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Project-Based

Enforcement defense, commercial disputes, and workplace claims for healthcare and health tech companies.

Ideal for:

  • General counsel & chief compliance officers
  • Digital health & health tech companies
  • Healthcare providers & networks
  • Private equity & portfolio companies
What You Get:

Response to subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and agency inquiries, with resolution strategy that accounts for the continuing regulatory relationship.

Demand and response strategy, negotiated resolution, and representation in arbitration and mediation for vendor, licensing, and post-closing disputes.

Agency responses and defense of workplace claims, coordinated with the internal investigation that usually sits underneath them.

Selection, direction, and budget management of trial counsel when a matter proceeds to court, with strategy and accountability staying in one place.

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Robyn D. Marino, Esquire

Leading with Experience

I am a Payor Strategist and Legal Advisor focused on helping health technology companies navigate regulatory complexity, commercial strategy, and market entry across global markets, including the United States. With more than 20 years of experience working inside highly regulated healthcare environments, I understand the real-world challenges organizations face, from stalled payor negotiations and regulatory alignment with CMS and data privacy rules, to structuring contracts that support scale, access, and transparency.

Through Global Link Law, I work as a strategic partner to founders, executives, and legal teams, providing legal advisory, compliance leadership, and risk management support that aligns with business objectives. Whether acting as in-house counsel support, Fractional General Counsel, or Fractional Chief Compliance Officer, my focus is on ensuring contracts, compliance frameworks, and governance structures enable growth rather than slow it down.

My approach is practical, collaborative, and execution-oriented. Legal and compliance strategies should not be barriers, they should be tools that build trust, support innovation, and drive sustainable success in the healthcare ecosystem.

Lawriocity, the Global Link Law compliance training program

Lawriocity®: Compliance Training, Reinvented by Legal Experts

Lawriocity® bridges the gap between legal risk and operational readiness, helping your teams stay ahead in a complex regulatory environment.

Empower Your Teams to Be Proactive
Our video-based training platform transforms compliance from a reactive obligation into a strategic advantage.

Training That Solves Real Operational Issues
Every module is designed to address practical challenges faced by legal and procurement teams, so learning translates into action.

Investigating Before Deciding on a High-Risk Termination

A healthcare technology company was ready to move on an underperforming employee when overlapping discrimination and retaliation allegations landed against management. Rather than decide first and defend later, we ran an independent investigation into every allegation, closed the documentation and training gaps it surfaced, and drafted both the separation agreement and the talking points management would use. The separation went through on a record the company could stand behind.

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Closing a Health-Tech Acquisition Without Inheriting the Risk

A private equity buyer signed a letter of intent for a multi-state digital health platform before anyone had tested whether its payor contracts were assignable or its licenses would transfer. We ran healthcare-grade diligence, priced what we found back into the deal, and negotiated a structure that moved that risk off the buyer, then built the post-close governance. The buyer closed into a governed entity rather than a cleanup project.

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Building an Audit-Ready Compliance Program Before It Is Tested

A telehealth provider was scaling into new states faster than its compliance function could follow, with untested compensation arrangements, a stale HIPAA program and no multi-state roadmap. We assessed the risk, rebuilt the HIPAA program around how the business actually handles data, and restructured the arrangements before they became exposure. Expansion continued on a roadmap built in advance rather than reconstructed under pressure.

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Launching a Clinical AI Tool on a Position It Could Defend

An early-stage health-AI company was preparing to launch without a settled view of how its product would be regulated, and was about to sign its first health-system customer on data terms no one had reviewed. We mapped a defensible regulatory position, built privacy and IP protection into the platform rather than onto it, and negotiated that first enterprise agreement so it did not quietly surrender the company’s data or its regulatory footing.

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Entering the U.S. Health Market Before Selling a Single Service

A non-US digital health company assumed U.S. entry was a corporate formality. It is not. GDPR is not HIPAA, and healthcare fraud-and-abuse rules apply from the first day. We built the entity, reconciled its data practices with HIPAA, and redrafted its contracts to U.S. standards before it committed capital. It entered on a foundation built for the market rather than retrofitted to it.

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Pricing FCPA Risk Into a Deal Before It Became the Buyer’s Problem

A private equity buyer was acquiring a company that sold through agents in high-risk markets. Under FCPA successor liability, the target’s past would become the buyer’s problem at closing. Led by a former federal prosecutor, we ran anti-corruption diligence, moved what we found into the deal terms, and refreshed the compliance program after close. The buyer closed with the risk identified and allocated rather than inherited blind.

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Testimonials

John Murabito

Chief Administrative Officer, Retired - The Cigna Group

Robyn was critical to the successful execution of dozens of contracts and deals that enabled our HR function to deliver innovative solutions to significant business challenges. She applied her legal knowledge and strong grasp of the business to ensure we always enjoyed favorable, compliant, smart and flexible terms. Robyn’s expertise was not only sought, but required, before we agreed to any contract of importance. She was an important and needed partner to my HR function.

Mitchell Vuernick

Senior Director - Aviation

I have had the pleasure of working with Robyn Marino, ESQ for the past 10 years under various circumstances. In typical Fortune companies, attorneys are assigned the next task in line as compared to remaining with the same client (department).

My first interaction with Ms. Marino was in regard to a real estate lease renewal. As we began to work together, I was impressed with her detailed knowledge of contract law, protections for the client, penchant for details and dedication to the task. All too often in large companies, priorities shift, and processes get dropped down on the priority list. Ms. Marino maintained focus on the tasks and completed her due diligence in an expedited manner.

Based on this first project she became our “go-to” person for all legal matters regardless of her area of expertise. As an aviation department within a large corporation, our needs are specialized, highly sensitive and contain financial risk. Every time we worked together, Ms. Marino met the challenge by asking questions and educating herself on the nuances of this specificity of the project.

Our last project together culminated in the purchase of a ultra-long-range corporate aircraft. The multimillion-dollar transaction progressed flawlessly as Ms. Marino shepherded it to close.

Every transaction we encountered with Ms. Marino in our corner was a success for our department.

Alicia Kennedy

I had the sincere privilege of working with Robyn on several strategic vendor transactions while at Cigna. Robyn navigated the dynamic and often complex landscape of global health services with straightforwardness and a high degree of professionalism.

Robyn approached each transaction with curiosity, a sincere willingness to understand the business need, and a commitment to quality outcomes. She has a keen ability to navigate intricate contractual agreements, negotiate terms that favor the organization, and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Robyn was an invaluable asset to Cigna’s procurement department and I’m grateful for the positive impact she had on our operations. 

Robyn is a reliable and trustworthy colleague and I learned so much from working alongside her. I enthusiastically endorse Robyn as a legal professional and partner of the highest caliber.

Bart Jordens

Consultant and Advisor

I had the pleasure of working closely with Robyn for many years on complex contract negotiations in the health tech and insurtech sector. Her exceptional legal expertise, combined with a diplomatic and approachable demeanor, made every collaboration a productive experience. Robyn’s willingness to patiently explain intricate legal details ensured a thorough understanding, making her an invaluable asset to the team.

Jim Kucharczyk

Managing Director, IT Global Procurement & Supplier Management

I worked with Robyn for more than 10 years at Cigna and was very sorry to see her leave.  She is a highly capable and thorough attorney, ferocious in her defense of our company’s rights and insightful into potential risks and pitfalls.  I would look forward to working with her again on my side of the table and would dread seeing her on the other side.

Karthik Ganesh

CEO, OnMed

OnMed is in the midst of a significant transformation and has aggressive multi-pronged goals across growth, scalability, compliance, IP filings for a new category of healthcare access, etc. We have a really smart GC but just the sheer volume and complexity of the moving pieces would have consumed her completely but for Robyn and her Global Link Law practice. On the legal, regulatory, and contracting fronts she has helped us accelerate our efforts, while helping us standardize and optimize efforts and processes along the way. An attorney with very strong client-facing skills, Robyn has very effectively partnered with our GC to give her the support she needs, strategically and tactically. As needed, she has brought in other legal talent who could more specifically work with us on our more nuanced needs. Would highly recommend Robyn personally and her broader practice.

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Strategic Legal Counsel for Healthcare & Health Technology

Your organization faces legal and regulatory complexity that demands more than outside counsel. It demands a partner who has sat on your side of the table.

From government investigations and FCPA matters to healthcare M&A and payer contracting, we’ve handled it from the inside and from the courtroom.

Whether you need fractional leadership, transactional support, or a defensible compliance framework, we deliver counsel built around what the business actually needs. What sets us apart is real-world in-house experience. Our partners have served in senior legal roles within large and publicly traded companies, giving them a direct understanding of what business leaders and boards actually need from legal counsel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What Areas of Law Does Global Link Law Practice?

Global Link Law is a healthcare and health technology law firm working across nine practice areas: transactional and corporate, regulatory and compliance, digital health and technology, international market entry, fractional general counsel, fractional chief compliance officer, FCPA and anti-corruption, investigations, and litigation and dispute resolution. Matters range from closing a transaction to responding to a government inquiry.

What Kinds of Organizations Does Global Link Law Represent?

The firm works with healthcare, insurance and health technology companies, including digital health and telehealth platforms, revenue cycle management and life sciences businesses, health plans, hospital systems and physician groups. Engagements are typically with founders, executives and in-house legal teams who need specialized counsel alongside the work their own team already carries.

How Are Engagements with Global Link Law Structured?

Engagement structure varies by service. Global Link Law states the arrangement that applies to each practice area on the site, including project-based work, monthly fee and flat fee engagements. Fractional general counsel and fractional chief compliance officer are embedded, part-time roles rather than one-off projects, which is how an organization gets senior legal leadership without a full-time hire.

Does Global Link Law Work with Companies Based Outside the United States?

Yes. The firm is based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and advises healthcare and health technology companies expanding into or out of the United States. That work includes cross-border contracts, entity formation and licensure for US market entry, reconciling non-US data practices with HIPAA, and FCPA and anti-corruption matters for companies operating across borders.