Miami Beach Medical Sold to New PE Firm

Miami Beach Medical Sold to New PE Firm

Since 2017, Miami Beach Medical Group has been backed by Texas-based private equity firm Gauge Capital, LLC, and the partnership seems to have been successful. Based on search results in our Healthcare Deal Database, the physician group hasn’t acquired any new practices to expand its footprint, but under Gauge Capital’s ownership, the practice’s EBITDA grew from $15 million in 2016 to an estimated $40 million in 2020. And now, Gauge Capital is exiting its investment, and selling Miami Beach Medical to Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a Florida-based private equity firm. The deal is valued at approximately $500 million, according to sources cited at PE Hub.  Miami Beach Medical is the... Read More »
PE Firms Go in Big for Dental Deals

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 »
Physician Medical Group Deals Stayed Strong in Q1:18

Physician Medical Group Deals Stayed Strong in Q1:18

Physician medical group M&A activity was strong in the first quarter of 2018, according to new acquisition data from HealthCareMandA.com. The number of physician medical group acquisitions increased to 36 in the first quarter, up 9% from the 33 publicly announced acquisitions in the fourth quarter of 2017. Compared with the year-earlier quarter, when a recent record of 59 deals were reported, deal activity was down 39%. None of the transactions disclosed a purchase price. The most prolific buyers were MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD) and Eye Health South with three acquisitions each, followed by Anne Arundel Dermatology, Gauge Capital, Platinum Dermatology and Team Health, with two deals each.... Read More »
Physician Medical Group Deals Stayed Strong in Q1:18

Dermatology Deals Keep PE Platforms Growing

The Physician Medical Group sector has been very busy in recent years, as hospitals and health systems acquire local practices that can produce referrals and private equity firms build platforms and make add-on deals. Dermatology practices aren’t coveted by hospitals, so it’s the private equity firms that are doing the collecting. In the first eight weeks of 2018, 17 deals for physician medical groups have been annouced, 10 in Janaury and seven in the first three weeks of February. The usual specialty practices were represented in that mix, with Mednax (NYSE: MD) adding a neonatology practice in California, Minnesota-based not-for-profit Fairview Health Services acquiring a... Read More »