Firm: Water Street Healthcare Partners
Year Founded: 2005
Headquarters: Chicago
Leader: Tim Dugan, Managing Partner
Strategy: Create market-leading platform companies in diagnostic devices, medical products, specialty distribution and other niche segments of the health care industry that can eventually be sold to larger strategic buyers.
Number of Investment Professionals: 13, plus five operating partners
The founders of Water Street Healthcare Partners spun out of One Equity Partners back in 2005, confident they could extricate outsized returns from the labyrinthine U.S.
