Dean Gould offers comprehensive corporate and M&A guidance to healthcare industry clients, including healthcare providers, investor-backed platforms, and dental organizations.

A wide range of healthcare clients rely on Dean for support on strategic transactions and negotiations, including acquisitions, mergers, recapitalizations, divestitures, joint ventures, and other growth initiatives. Dean works closely with clients to structure and execute transactions that address the unique operational, regulatory, and business considerations of the healthcare industry, including compliant physician practice management and other healthcare business structures. He also advises clients in other highly regulated industries where complex corporate transactions require an understanding of regulatory frameworks and industry-specific considerations.

Dean is also experienced in drafting and negotiating a variety of corporate and transactional agreements, including purchase agreements, merger agreements, operating agreements, management agreements, employment agreements, and other strategic transaction arrangements.

Prior to his legal career, Dean was a middle school history teacher.

    • Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., cum laude
    • Texas Tech University, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
  • Bar Admissions

    • Texas
    • Named to The Best Lawyers in America®"Ones to Watch" list

      • Corporate Law, 2023-2027
      • Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2026 and 2027
    • Selected to Lawdragon’s 500 X – The Next Generation 2025 and 2026 lists

    • Recognized in Texas Super Lawyers® as a Rising Star for Business & Corporate, 2025

    • Named in Legal 500, U.S. Elite

      • Dallas, Corporate M&A, 2025
    • Dallas Bar Association, Member

    • American Health Lawyers Association, Member

Latest News and Insights

Press Mentions9.22.26

“Structure, Regulation, and the Second Bite (ft. Craig Woods and Dean Gould, Dykema)”

What can healthcare organizations do today to better position themselves for a future transaction?…

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Legal Alerts9.21.26

Bill Introduced To Establish New Federal Corporate Practice of Medicine Restrictions

On September 16, 2026, the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act was introduced in the U.S.…

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Press Releases9.18.26

30 Dykema Attorneys Named to Texas Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists for 2026

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that 17 of its Texas-based attorneys—from…

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