Healthcare M&A in 2025: Trends, Challenges, and Strategic Opportunities
Discover key healthcare M&A trends shaping 2025, including financial priorities, regulatory challenges, and investment strategies.
Jarrod Barraza
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.
A Checklist to Prepare for Growth By Merger or Acquisition
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.
M&A Transactions: Lost in Transition
Let’s admit it – mergers are exciting. You get to realize your company’s strategic plan and grow the company. The intricacies of negotiations can occupy all of your attention, and getting the deal right is incredibly important. But often, transition plans for managing the resulting company are lost in the process.
What Is a Sell-Side Marketing Process?
Part of the life cycle of a business is a change in ownership, when an owner or founder sells his or her business. There are many motivations for owners to sell their business interests, among them:
HORNE Capital acts as advisor to MMI in Primos acquisition
RIDGELAND, Mississippi, January 21, 2022 – HORNE Capital, a leading M&A advisory firm, served as transaction advisor to MMI Hospitality Group in its recent acquisition of Primos Café.
HORNE Capital served as buy-side advisor to MMI President Micajah Sturdivant and the company leadership team to ensure a smooth transition between the two parties.
Neal Stephens
Neal Stephens is a transaction advisory senior manager for HORNE Capital Strategies. He works with business owners, strategic corporate buyers and private equity investors to advise and manage the sale and purchase process for transacting parties.
Josh Edwards
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.
Shifting Your Focus Toward Long-Term Growth
If you ask a dozen executives if their goals for their companies include long-term growth, you would probably get a unanimous “Yes” from the group. If you then asked them to define what long-term growth looks like at their companies, you might get a dozen different answers. In order to prepare a business for long-term growth, the first step is to understand what exactly needs to grow.
Capital Closes Sale of B&B Electrical to United Utility Services
HORNE Capital, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of its client, B&B Electrical & Utility Contractors, Inc. (“B&B Electrical”), by United Utility Services, LLC (“United Utility”), a Bernhard Capital Partners Management, LP (“Bernhard Capital”) company.