ERNEST J. CAPPELLACCI, was called to the Bar in 1983. For more than 22 years he has been primarily advising health care providers on corporate and commercial matters, and a variety of more specialized services within the health care field. His clients have included individual doctors and other health care professionals, partnerships, hospital medical staff groups, and corporate health care providers. He has assisted physicians and other health care professionals with setting up and maintaining corporations for use in their practices (professional corporations, licensee corporations etc.), purchasing and selling independent health facilities, professional practices and other health care businesses, partnership, shareholder, cost-share and associate agreements, agreements with hospitals and a variety of other specialized agreements in the health care sector, and advice on hospital-related issues, independent health facility matters, regulatory issues, and matters involving the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He has also represented corporate health care providers on a range of matters and has advised health care industry associations. He acts as legal counsel to specialist physician provincial associations advising on various issues including legislative, regulatory and policy changes affecting them, as well as internal corporate matters. He also has provided corporate and commercial law services to non-health care business corporations.

Mr. Cappellacci is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on a wide variety of topics relating to health care and the law.