Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be transformative events for business owners, offering the opportunity to achieve strategic growth, expand market share, or realize a well-earned return on years of hard work.
In this episode of the Healthcare M&A Podcast, HORNE Capital Markets Senior Manager Jared Barraza is joined by Phil Kim, Partner at Shepherd Mullin, to examine the evolving dynamics of healthcare transactions. Their conversation covers platform longevity, market headwinds, and how AI is reshaping subverticals across the industry.
This episode of the Healthcare M&A Podcast features a timely and insightful conversation between HORNE Capital Markets team members Jared Barraza and Matt Van Drunen, as they explore how proposed federal Medicaid cuts and policy restructuring could influence provider strategy, public budgets, and the broader dealmaking climate.
Discover key healthcare M&A trends shaping 2025, including financial priorities, regulatory challenges, and investment strategies.
Alfredo Pascual serves as a senior associate within HORNE Capital, focusing on business valuation and transaction advisory services.
Jarrod Barraza serves as a senior manager in HORNE’s valuation and transaction advisory group, focusing on the healthcare industry. He is skilled in complex transactions and delivering tailored solutions to meet the needs of his clients such as hospitals, dentists, physician practices, pharmacies and investor groups.
In the course of an acquisition, “due diligence” is often regarded as a built-in part of the process – a formality to be checked off once it’s completed. However, acquisitions that conduct thorough and competent due diligence have a greater chance of success because decision-makers have the quality of information they need to make a decision.
Emmett is a senior manager for HORNE Capital serving clients across a variety of industries. Emmett is a seasoned transaction advisory professional with over 10 years of experience specializing in financial due diligence and sell-side M&A advisory.
Events during the past few years have changed merger and acquisition deal volumes, a trend we expect to continue, including large numbers of transactions driven by the amount of debt and equity capital available. We see this in all deal sizes and across all industries.
In Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), the landscape changes, sometimes rapidly. The reasons can be that the market is “hot” or “cold,” depending upon the level of interest, or valuation multiples demonstrated by buyers. It can also happen when fundamental differences take place that often result in common knowledge becoming outdated or inaccurate.
Many of us rely on lists and step-by-step instructions to get us through some of the simplest tasks in life, like grocery shopping. And yet, when it comes to something as complex as the sale or acquisition of a business, many entrepreneurs and executives are willing to “wander the aisles” aimlessly trying to figure a transaction out instead of doing the basic planning that they use to make a trip to the supermarket successful. If your business plan calls for a merger or acquisition, here’s a suggested checklist to keep your transaction on track.
Josh Edwards is the firmwide director of HORNE Capital Strategies and a member of HORNE’s Board of Directors. He brings extensive experience in areas such as strategic growth, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence.