Great Hill and the evolution of employer benefit services
As legacy businesses are becoming more and more desperate to attract younger employees, customers and audiences, they are shelling out boatloads of cash to develop incubators and venture arms and are even buying “cool” companies outright. Just recently, for example, AB InBev’s “innovation, incubation and investment” unit ZX Ventures took a stake in a soda […]
How 'balance billing' wrangling could impact healthcare M&A
Warburg proves a force to be reckoned with in specialty EHR
Investors are still howling for vet care
Since 2012, the total number of private equity deals have increased within the healthcare sector year after year. As of mid-December 2018, a record breaking 464 private equity deals had closed with a combined value of $35 billion. Attracted by the high return on investment the healthcare sector can generate for portfolios, the current investment […]
Policymakers and politicians have become increasingly aware of the remarkable rise of private equity. True to form, the Beltway has done its part to add growing pains to the growth of the industry. Throughout 2016 and 2017, during the runup to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, political crosshairs were set on the carried interest […]
Back to school: TPG gets into payer services, VPay presses pause
Co-investing is an area in which investor interest doesn’t seem to be abating. There are plenty of ardent proponents of the practice, as well as some vehement skeptics. One thing that seems certain, though, is that co-investment is an ingrained and fundamentally important part of the private markets landscape and a subject that commands ongoing […]
Arsenal’s WCG preps for sale, Vesey’s Feinstein talks healthcare