In one of their more comical endeavors, Kramer and Newman of Seinfeld fame decide one day to reverse the peepholes on their apartment doors, allowing anyone who so chooses to have a clear look inside. Kramer boldly proclaims, “If somebody wants to help themselves to an eyeful, we say ‘enjoy the show!’” If only it […]
GPs get creative on dental deals
Like your 80-year-old great aunt’s refusal to use a smartphone, private equity has stubbornly resisted technology adoption and digital modernization. Your aunt has a generational excuse. Private equity does not. But behind the ubiquity of excel spreadsheets, we are starting to see a shift toward digitization and modernization. This shift underscores private equity’s slow (but […]
“There is an epidemic failure in the game to understand what is really happening.” That’s the beginning of fictional-character Peter Brand’s now-famous speech to A’s GM Billy Beane in the movie Moneyball, which depicts the birth of the sabermetric era of baseball (based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name). With the MLB playoffs […]
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 […]