Healthcare and Life Sciences Group
Akin Bay’s healthcare and life sciences group provides strategic and tactical financial advisory services to healthcare companies in the Unites States and internationally. Our professionals have advised the senior management teams from a broad range of companies and have significant transactional and operating experience in specialty pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare services.
Akin Bay’s healthcare group was formed to fill in the gap that exists in the lower middle market and smaller divisions of large companies. This section of the market is ignored by large investment banks whose focus is on servicing the larger companies in the healthcare space. Akin Bay differentiates itself through its expert professionals with deep industry contacts, broad range of capital market contacts and focused on enabling the client to achieve their objectives with speed. We specialize in providing the following services to the healthcare and life sciences industries:
- Capital Raising (Debt, Equity, PIPE)
- Principal Investments
- Merger, Acquisition and Divestitures
- Management Consulting
- Restructuring
Specific Sectors Covered:
Pharmaceuticals:
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Alternative Care Facilities:
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Hospitals:
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Generics:
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Biologics: | Logistics / Supply Chain: |
Our Difference:
| Expertise | Akin Bay’s strength is leveraging our extensive healthcare and life sciences experience and industry connections to generate ideas for our clients that create and enhance value. Akin Bay’s historical strength is finding premium values and unique capital structures which others have overlooked or lack the experience to perceive. Since its founding, Akin Bay has consistently created value for our clients at above market valuations. |
| Advisory Board | Through our principals we have long standing relationships with senior management of many large healthcare providers, medical professional and life sciences industry participants. Akin Bay’s value-added approach involves bringing in outside experts from relevant industries to generate strategic ideas that provide maximum benefit to the firm. Akin Bay has assembled an expert Advisory Board which brings unique knowledge and skills to each transaction. |
| Network / Contacts | Akin Bay professionals are industry experts and have built hundreds of contacts in the healthcare and life sciences industry. We leverage our global reach and experience to market domestic corporations to strategic foreign companies that are looking to successfully expanded in the United States. |
| Access to Capital | Over the last 20 years, Akin Bay professionals have assembled an extremely diverse array of capital markets relationships and connections focused on healthcare and life sciences sectors. We have relationships with approximately 175 private equity funds, senior lenders, mezzanine funds, high yield funds and other institutional investors who understand the mechanics of investing in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. |
| Innovative Financing | Akin Bay prides itself in executing complex assignments using innovating financing structures, which include combinations of debt and equity securities with features customized to bring the deal to closure. We specialize in flexible transaction structures, with particular expertise in complex corporate partnerships and recapitalizations for the healthcare and life sciences sectors. |
| Dual Coverage – Healthcare and Life Sciences | Akin Bay is one of very few investment banking firms in the MM that provides services to both the healthcare and life sciences sectors. Our professionals have the ability to deeply understand the demands and unique issues faced by each sector and customize an approach for individual companies in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. |
| Speed of Execution | Certain clients require an investment bank to move quickly so a transaction is not lost to a competitor. Akin Bay’s structure allows us to move faster than larger investment banks, provides quick execution in terms of speed, flexibility and adaptability to change. Many times it’s about speed to action oriented execution and achieving results. By consistently delivering results on a timely basis, we are able to stand apart from our competitors. |
| Client Focus | Our most experienced investment banking and consulting professionals will oversee every aspect of the client relationship with Akin Bay and every stage of the transaction. We selectively take on only a limited number of engagements a year, using the additional time to focus on our due diligence efforts on the possibilities for our clients. This client- driven approach has served well all our clients, especially those who have come back to us for additional transactions. |
| One Stop Shop | Akin Bay’s investment banking services cover a broad range of services, which services our clients more thoroughly than most of our competitors which are usually narrowly focused on sell-side M&A. Our One-Stop-Shop services cover: (1) proprietary deal flow, (2) raising capital across the entire capital structure from senior debt to equity, (3) M&A for both domestic and international strategic and financial suitors.(4) management consulting, valuations, and (5) restructuring. In addition, Akin Bay provides direct industry expertise through our Advisory Board composed of industry experts, which assist us in executing transactions and evaluating drugs, products and services in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sectors. |
| Proprietary Deal Flow | Akin Bay’s industry specialization, combined with many relationships cultivated during 20 years in business, generates an unmatched proprietary deal flow in the MM and produces higher quality investment opportunities for our clients. |