PE Firms Go in Big for Dental Deals
Buying dental practices has been a competitive sport for a few years now, especially among private equity firms. Eighteen deals for dental practices have been announced through July 20 this year (no prices, of course). In all of 2017, 30 deals for dental practices were announced, with the buyers either private equity firms getting in on the action, or making add-on acquisitions. Last year’s consolidations have become large platforms today. One example is Western Dental Group, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital since 2012, which has been cobbling together a California base focused on pediatric and family dental practices. In 2017, Western Dental added 14 Smile Wide offices... Read More »Acadia Healthcare Tidies Up Its UK Portfolio
With three announced acquisitions on the books in 2016, Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC) was forced to sell some of its portfolio, for a change. The Franklin, Tennessee-based behavioral health company has been quite active over in the United Kingdom since 2014, when it acquired Partnerships in Care (PiC) for $662 million.At the time, PiC was the second largest independent provider of behavioral healthcare services in the United Kingdom, operating 23 inpatient psychiatric facilities with more than 1,200 beds. The sale worked out to 2.3x price-to-revenue and 8.8x price-to-EBITDA. In 2015, Acadia added Care UK, Choice Lifestyles and The Manor Clinic. Care UK operates 15 inpatient... Read More »Schedule a demo
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