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A Leading Financial Advisor to Healthcare Companies
To survive and prosper, healthcare companies must stay focused on the changes and dynamics driving their industry. That means anticipating market trends, assessing the competition, and identifying both opportunities and their own vulnerabilities.
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin’s Healthcare Investment Banking Group is a recognized leader in middle market investment banking and financial restructuring. As a leading transactional and financial advisor to the healthcare industry, Houlihan Lokey has successfully executed hundreds of engagements designed to strategically position our clients as leaders within the healthcare industry.
The Healthcare Group has been involved in many large and complex transactions and is currently very active in the consolidation and restructuring taking place in the healthcare industry. The Group’s core of dedicated professionals combines financial acumen and healthcare expertise with extensive transaction experience to provide strategic alternatives and execution capabilities to healthcare companies. Our healthcare investment bankers provide clients with strategic and creative advice to maximize client investments through the following services:
Mergers & Acquisitions
Houlihan Lokey provides companies and individuals offers the advantage of
in-depth knowledge of local, regional, and national industry participants and
companies in virtually every healthcare segment. Houlihan Lokey skillfully
advises clients on strategic alternatives and market conditions and carefully
negotiates and executes transactions to the goals of its clients
Private Placement of Debt and Equity
Private placements are the primary vehicle in healthcare, especially
healthcare services, to raise the required capital necessary to fund growth, to
complete mergers and acquisitions, and to provide operating and working capital.
The firm maintains relationships with major purchasers of healthcare debt and
equity.
Financial Restructuring
As a result of our experience, Houlihan Lokey’s Healthcare Group has a
thorough understanding of the current issues affecting the industry and the keys
to maximizing value. The firm has assisted companies, bondholders, secured and
unsecured creditors, equity holders and acquiring parties in achieving
successful solutions.
Financial Advisory
Fairness Opinions
The firm has developed a strong reputation in providing fairness opinions and
analyses to boards of directors, independent committees, investors, foundations
and ESOPs.
Solvency Opinions
Houlihan Lokey became one of the preeminent firms during the 1980s in providing
solvency opinions in leveraged transactions. By utilizing highly complex financial
methodologies, the firm has been able to provide both lenders and boards of directors with the comfort level necessary to enable
them to proceed forward with a particular leveraged transaction.
Valuation Opinions
The firm’s valuation opinions are used regularly in a large number of contexts including: shareholder liquidity alternatives; private company
valuations; M&A; restructurings and reorganizations; ESOPs; corporate redemption’s; management stock plans; estate, gift and income planning.
Merchant Banking - Houlihan Lokey provides merchant banking services through our two affiliated private equity funds.
Century Park Capital Partners, L.P. -- A $200 million Houlihan Lokey-affiliated private investment fund that engages in long-term $5-$15 million private equity investments in middle-market companies, primarily through recapitalizations, management buyouts, later-stage growth financings and ESOP transactions.
Sunrise Capital Partners, L.P. -- A $300 million private equity fund affiliated with Houlihan Lokey that is focused on acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies undergoing financial distress or related special circumstances. Sunrise Capital seeks to preserve value by funding a company safely through the period of distress, and to enhance value through the commitment of capital and operational resources.
Industry Segments Served
Assisted Living
Clinical Laboratories
Diagnostic Imaging Centers
Health Maintenance Organizations
Home Health Care Agencies
Hospitals
Long-term Acute Care
Medical Practices/IPA’s
Nursing Homes
Outpatient Surgery Centers
Physician Practice Management Companies
Preferred Provider Organizations
Rehabilitation Companies
Medical Product Manufacturers
Bio Technology
Pharmaceuticals
Houlihan Lokey Quarterly Healthcare Report
The Group’s knowledge of the healthcare industry is highlighted quarterly with their publication titled Houlihan Lokey Quarterly Healthcare Report. The report is a combination of analysis, statistics and commentary on the hospital management, physician practice management, nursing home, assisted living and long-term care sectors of the healthcare industry. Included are stock price graphs, financial statement statistics, valuation multiples, recent merger transactions and recent news and trends for each sector. Please request a complimentary copy by calling (312) 456-4717 or download the latest from past quarters at http://www.hlhzhealth.com.
