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Geoff is the immediate past chair of the firm’s private equity group where he served for over a decade. He also formerly served on the firm’s Board of Partners. He has a wide scope of experience in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. His mergers and acquisition experience, representing private equity sponsors, strategic purchasers and sellers extends across a diverse number of industries with a primary focus on healthcare provider services transactions. Geoff is a national contributor both at conferences and in publications on a wide array of issues unique to the private equity industry. He regularly contributes to Law360’s Healthcare and Private Equity sections, and is an author of The Healthcare Investor, a blog on healthcare finance topics.

Unemployment trends have significant ramifications for labor market dynamics and the macroeconomy. Understanding the implications of the macroeconomy helps business leaders make more informed investment decisions.

In this episode of The Corner Series, McGuireWoods’ Geoff Cockrell welcomes guests Tim

Continue Reading Macroeconomic Market Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry, With Tim Fry and Alex Chausovsky

GTCR announced it has closed its acquisition of Cloudbreak Health from UpHealth for a purchase price of $180 million.

Cloudbreak, based in Columbus, Ohio, is a video-focused language interpretation service provider that helps patients with limited English proficiency communicate

Continue Reading Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: GTCR Acquires Cloudbreak Health for $180 Million

“We believe in partnering with people that have that passion, that really want to put the business and the patient over themselves. That’s really the secret sauce of microcap investing.” – Gordon Maner

On this episode of The Corner Series

Continue Reading The Partnership Approach to Private Equity Investing in Healthcare, With Gordon Maner

As the market recovers, multiple trends are taking shape in the healthcare provider services industry that will affect investors in 2024.

On this episode of The Corner Series, McGuireWoods’ Geoff Cockrell welcomes Bart Walker and Matt Searles. Bart

Continue Reading Healthcare Investing: What to Expect in 2024, With Bart Walker and Matt Searles

People have invested a lot in dermatology, dental and other areas and are now looking for the next sector. In this episode of The Corner Series, McGuireWoods’ Geoff Cockrell is joined by Mitch Stern, managing director and head

Continue Reading Investment Trends in Plastic Surgery and Med Spa Sectors, With Mitch Stern of Dresner Partners

Argosy Healthcare Partners (AHP) has announced the recapitalization of Command Medical Products.

Command, based in Ormond Beach, Fla., and founded in 1987, provides contract manufacturing services for medical devices sold by original equipment manufacturers and other device providers. 

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Continue Reading Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Argosy Recapitalizes Command Medical Products

The physician practice management (PPM) arena is a mixture of tailwinds, including the ability to expand ancillary services, and headwinds, including more expensive labor costs and antitrust pressures.

On this episode of The Corner Series, McGuireWoods’ Geoff Cockrell speaks

Continue Reading Prognosis on the PPM Environment and Areas of Opportunity, With Andy Colbert of Ziegler

The consolidation wave of private equity-backed platforms has moved through different sectors at different times. One of the most recent sectors to see increased interest from private equity is cardiology.

This episode of The Corner Series introduces the “Executive Corner,”

Continue Reading Private Equity Interest in Cardiology, With Tim Attebery of Cardiovascular Associates of America

The healthcare sector is witnessing a trend toward consolidation, but it’s not just big hospital mergers making headlines. Private equity is playing a pivotal role in driving smaller consolidations within healthcare provider services.

In this episode of The Corner Series

Continue Reading Private Equity and Healthcare Consolidation: The Revolution in Antitrust Enforcement