This article focuses on the entry of private equity firms in the healthcare sector. Loaded with cash, private equity firms are looking to put money to work and buying into just about every industry imaginable. Specifically, the...
But mostly, according to industry experts, private equity firms are facing increased scrutiny from state and federal regulators. The recent collapse of Dallas-based Steward Health Care, backed by private equity, has brought even more attention to the sector's risks. In January, The Bost...
Pre-Trend Tests to Examine Outcomes of Private Equity Nursing Homes and For-Profit Nursing Homes Without Private Equity Ownership Prior to Acquisition 1. Scheffler RM, Alexander LM, Godwin JR. Soaring private equity investment in the healthcare sector: consolidation accelerated, competition undermined,...
Healthcare information technology companies have seen an uptick in M&A activity for several years, and 2019 was no exception. But the landscape of this sector is changing – and fast. Increased investment by private equity firms in service sectors has reinvigorated interest in the technology platform...
In the life sciences sector, PE firms may be prepared to hold on to investments for longer periods of time to achieve a better return. This may occur in businesses involved in pharmaceutical drug development. However, this may explain the increasing number of investments in generic pharmaceu...
Private equity’s involvement in the U.S.’s childcare industry has been expanding since the mid-1990s, when KKR, one of the country’s largest PE firms, invested in KinderCare, the U.S.’s biggest childcare chain. To providers with big ambitions, the benefits of such investment are clear...
5 Private equity firms’ sustained interest in hospitals likely reflects several factors: (1) perceived inefficiencies that provide opportunities to improve operations,2,6 (2) an aging population that will require more acute care services,7,8 and (3) fragmented hospital markets that make horizontal...
since 2020, in large part because that was the year private equity firmsbegan buying upvet clinics across the country. Once acquired, the clinics and pet hospitals are drained of assets by some of America’s most morbidly rich individuals. The simple result: higher prices for pet care.” ...
Private equity firms are making a splash in healthcare, but the extent that the firms have infiltrated the industry has been difficult to quantify due to non-disclosure agreements and other business practices. A team of researchers led by Jane M. Zhu, MD, MPP, MSHP, assistant professor...
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