Amanda
Zablocki

PartnerCo-Leader, Healthcare Industry Team
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Amanda Zablocki

Overview

Amanda is co-leader of the firm's 230-attorney Healthcare Industry team. A trusted legal and strategic advisor to healthcare organizations throughout the United States, she helps them to achieve their mission and goals while navigating a dynamic regulatory landscape.

Large-scale, strategic transactions—mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, and corporate reorganizations—are at the center of Amanda’s practice. With extensive knowledge of the industry, deep understanding of the key drivers and levers for success, and broad experience navigating the complex healthcare regulatory landscape, she helps clients close high-impact deals that transform healthcare.

Having begun her career in commercial litigation, Amanda brings a litigator’s eye to managing risk in connection with disputes—actual and potential—and advocating her clients’ positions.

Amanda’s clients include health plans and health insurers, hospital systems, academic medical centers, digital health and healthcare technology companies, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, rare disease organizations, physician practices, management services organizations, value-based care organizations, and 501(c)(3) organizations.

Amanda co-founded Sheppard’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative, an exclusive initiative that provides support to women professionals in the healthcare and life sciences industries.

She is also co-founder and a board member of Hyper IgM Foundation, an organization committed to improving the treatment, quality of life and long-term outlook for children and adults living with Hyper IgM.

Credentials
Clerkships

Intern to the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna, U.S. Federal Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Education

J.D., Fordham Law School, 2010, Moot Court, Urban Law Journal

B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, 2007

Admissions

New York

New Jersey

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Honors

Leading Lawyer, Chambers USA, 2024-2025

Recommended Attorney - Healthcare - Service Providers, Legal 500, 2025

Recommended Attorney - Healthcare - Health Insurers, Legal 500, 2025

Next Generation Partner and Recommended Attorney - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2021-2025

500 X The Next Generation, Lawdragon, 2023-2024

New York Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2015-2025

Rising Star - Not-For-Profit, Legal 500, 2020

Associate to Watch, Chambers USA, 2018

Ms. Zablocki was a member of the pro bono team at Sheppard receiving the 2011 Frankel Award from Human Rights First for their successful representation of Abdalmageed Haroun, a prominent human rights activist and former Sudanese prisoner. In the Sudan, Mr. Haroun's work focused on women's rights, the plight of internally displaced refugees, and the victims of the conflict in Darfur. As a result of his selfless and heroic efforts, Mr. Haroun was detained for months, persecuted, tortured, and threatened with death by the Sudanese government, forcing him to flee the country. The firm represented Mr. Haroun in connection with his application for asylum in the United States.

Amanda Zablocki - Chambers 2024
Chambers USA 2025_ Amanda Zablocki
Legal 500 Next Generation Partner 2024
Legal 500 Next Generation Partner 2025
Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025
Memberships

Co-Chair and Founder, Sheppard’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative

Chair, Sheppard Mullin’s New York Recruiting Committee

Member, Sheppard’s Women Lawyers Group National Leadership Council

Co-Founder and Director, Hyper IgM Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit rare disease patient advocacy organization

Thought Leadership

"Models for Partnership," 2024 WHLC Women in Healthcare Leadership Summit, October 24, 2024

"Value-Based Arrangements – Part 4: Safe Harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute," LexisNexis, June 2024

"Value-Based Arrangements – Part 3: Exceptions under the Stark Law," LexisNexis, June 2024

"Value-Based Arrangements – Part 2: How to Establish a Value-Based Enterprise," LexisNexis, June 2024

"Value-Based Arrangements – Part 1: Building Blocks of a Value-Based Arrangement," LexisNexis, June 2024