Blackstone Announces Strategic Investment in Life Science Logistics
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced today that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (“Blackstone”) have entered into a definitive agreement to make a significant, strategic investment in Life Science Logistics (“LSL” or the “Company”), a leading, national provider of healthcare supply chain solutions. The investment is intended to help accelerate LSL’s continued expansion within the fast-growing […]
Edgemont Partners Advises Mindful Health Solutions on Growth Investment from Norwest Venture Partners
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, Edgemont Partners (“Edgemont”), a premier healthcare investment bank and a leading M&A and capital raising advisor exclusively serving healthcare companies, acted as exclusive financial advisor to Mindful Health Solutions (“MHS” or “the Company”), a leading provider of interventional psychiatry services, on its growth investment from Norwest Venture Partners (“Norwest”). Edgemont’s deal […]
VMG Health Acquires Health Care Futures
VMG Health, the market leader in providing full-service healthcare transaction advisory and consulting, is pleased to announce it has acquired Health Care Futures, a business strategy and consulting firm with offices in Minneapolis and Chicago. The transaction was recently closed, and the two firms will be fully integrated in the first quarter of 2021. VMG […]
Private equity pushes into healthcare: 8 latest deals
There were more than 300 private equity deals in the healthcare industry in 2019, and the healthcare sector has continued to draw private equity investors over the past year. Here are eight private equity deals announced since Jan. 1: 1. Water Street Healthcare Partners invested in Southern Scripts, a Natchitoches, La.-based pharmacy benefit management company. […]
Blueberries Medical Closes $1M Strategic Financing Led by a Leading Latin American Private Equity Group with Extensive International Cannabis Industry Expertise; Appoints Facundo Garretón as Chairman & Interim CEO
TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blueberries Medical Corp. (CSE: BBM) (OTC: BBRRF) (FRA: 1OA) (the “Company” or “Blueberries“), a Latin American licensed producer of medicinal cannabis and cannabis-derived products, is pleased to announce the completion of a non-brokered private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of C$1,000,000 (the “Offering”) from the sale of common […]
Lebanon inks final deal for 2.1 mln doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
BEIRUT, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s caretaker health minister signed a final deal on Sunday to secure 2.1 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine as the country battles a steep rise in infections. The vaccines are expected to arrive in batches starting February, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry is also cooperating with […]
Avista Capital Partners Announces Strategic Investment from Capital Constellation
Capital Constellation acquired a strategic minority interest in Avista Capital Partners, a leading New York-based healthcare focused private equity firm NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2021 Avista Capital Partners, a leading New York-based private equity firm with over $6 billion invested in more than 35 healthcare businesses globally, today announced a strategic partnership with Capital Constellation (“Constellation”). Constellation, a […]
Vital social care has become the plaything of the super-rich
Mental distress is lining fat cats’ pockets We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy and trauma, of shattered hopes and shrunken horizons. Yet there was at last focus on the forgotten social care sector after its inadequacies, pitiful support and Cinderella status […]