A seasoned corporate attorney with two decades of experience, Mason L. Allen advises healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and executives on complex transactions, corporate governance, and regulatory strategy.
As a Partner in the Firm’s Healthcare Practice Group, he guides clients through high-stakes negotiations and transformative business initiatives and has handled transactions across the corporate life cycle, from mergers and acquisitions and early-stage financings to public offerings, debt and equity financings, and bankruptcy restructurings.
Mason’s recent work includes representing Hudson Regional Hospital in the rescue and acquisition of Bayonne Medical Center and the creation of a four-hospital health system in Hudson County. He advised on debtor-in-possession financing, navigated multi-party negotiations, and addressed regulatory and political hurdles to preserve critical healthcare access in underserved communities. He also represented a specialty care practice in a joint venture and partial acquisition by RWJBarnabas Health, the system’s largest investment in an independent physician group to date.
Previously, Mason served as General Counsel of RCS Capital, a NYSE-listed financial services company in the alternative investments sector and owner of the second largest network of independent broker-dealers in the U.S., where he oversaw its Chapter 11 restructuring. He has also advised multi-state healthcare, veterinary, and cannabis companies on capital-raising, governance, and strategic transactions, as well as facilitated IPOs for U.S.-based medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Before practicing law, Mason worked as a healthcare management consultant, advising hospitals and health systems on patient throughput, claims processing, and revenue enhancement. His consultancy highlights include designing improved patient flow for Hackensack University Medical Center’s outpatient oncology center and assisting Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Medicaid revenue recovery and appeals.
Mason earned his J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. He holds a B.A. in History from Dartmouth College.