Robert Andrew Wild
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021

Phone 516-393-2222
Fax 516-466-5964
rwild@gwtlaw.com
  Practice Groups
Business
Compliance and White Collar Defense
Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy
Health Care
Tax

Year Joined
Founding Partner

Education
St. John's University School of Law (J.D., 1967);
State University of Buffalo (B.A., 1964)

Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1968

Court Admission(s)
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, 2d Dept.;
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York;
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York;
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit;
Supreme Court of the United States

Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association
Nassau County Bar Association

Other Affiliation(s)
American Health Lawyers Association

Biography
Robert Andrew Wild is a founding member of Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C. He has and continues to serve as its chairman since the Firm's inception. The firm, which maintains offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, represents an array of national and regional health care provider institutions, companies, practitioners, and not-for-profit groups, as well as clients in other industries.

Mr. Wild’s practice primarily focuses on addressing the legal, regulatory, business and financial needs of the firm’s clients. His principal activities include: complex transactions for health care providers, including regulatory, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, reimbursement, professional conduct issues, patient issues, real estate, graduate medical education, and many other areas.

Mr. Wild is a frequent lecturer and author in the field of health law, and has addressed a broad variety of groups, organizations and health care providers.

Mr. Wild was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Health Law, Hofstra University Law School. He has also served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Health Law at Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, and is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association Health Law Section, is Chair of the Board of United Way of Long Island, is on the Advisory Board of United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County, the Board of the American Heart Association-Long Island Chapter, the Board of the St. John's Law School Alumni Association and is Chair of the Audit Advisory Committee for Nassau County.

Mr. Wild received his B.A. in 1964 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his J.D. in 1967 from St. John's University School of Law.

Publications

Serving Your "Berger" Well Done: A Recipe for Closing or Reconfiguring a Not-for-Profit Hospital in New York, NYSBA Health Law Journal, Fall 2008

Other Views on the Role of the AG in Health Care, NYSBA Health Law Newsletter, Spring 2003, Vol. 8, No. 2.

Contributing author and editor, NYSBA Legal Manual of New York Physicians (2003).

Physicians' Responsibility for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners, NYSBA Health Law Newsletter. Summer/Fall 2001, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Honors

Best Lawyers - Health Care Law (2009)

New York Super Lawyers - Metro Edition (2009)

America's Leading Business Lawyers - Healthcare (Chambers and Partners, 2008)

New York Super Lawyers - Metro Edition (2008)

The Attorney of Nassau County - Who's Who List (November 2008)

St. John's University School of Law - Alumni of the Month (October 2008)

Nightingale's Healthcare News Outstanding Hospital Lawyers List (2008)

Best Lawyers - Health Care Law (2008)

St. John's University Alumni
Outstanding Achievement Medal (June 2007)

Best Lawyers - Health Care Law (2007)

America's Leading Business Lawyers - Healthcare (Chambers and Partners, 2007)

America's Leading Business Lawyers - Healthcare (Chambers and Partners, 2006)

Best Lawyers - Health Care Law (2006)

Honored by Touro Law Center as Public Interest Attorney of the Year (November 2006)

St. Barnabas honored Robert Wild for his extraordinary vision and achievements in the field of health care (August 2006)

St. John's Riverside Hospital - Annual Honoree (2007)

Good Scout Award - Greater New York Council
Boy Scouts of America (2005)

America's Leading Business Lawyers - Healthcare (Chambers and Partners, 2005)

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