The Corner Series

“We’re predicting that 2026 will be a bit stronger than 2025 in terms of overall deal activity,” says Rebecca Springer, director of market development at Bailey & Company, a healthcare-dedicated investment banking group.

In a three-part installment of the “Corner Series Shorts” format, where McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell dives into a narrower topic with experts, Rebecca shares her outlook on 2026.

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“We’re predicting that 2026 will be a bit stronger than 2025 in terms of overall deal activity,” says Rebecca Springer, director of market development at Bailey & Company, a healthcare-dedicated investment banking group.

In a three-part installment of the “Corner Series Shorts” format, where McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell dives into a narrower topic with experts, Rebecca shares her outlook on 2...

“We're predicting that 2026 will be a bit stronger than 2025 in terms of overall deal activity," says Rebecca Springer, director of market development at Bailey & Company, a healthcare-dedicated investment banking group.

In the latest installment of the “Corner Series Shorts” format, where host Geoff Cockrell dives into a narrower topic with experts, Rebecca unpacks where the deal activity is landing, why there are opportunities...

Lower middle-market private equity in government-reimbursed healthcare requires a different playbook — one that balances controlling ownership with founder retention to build long-term value. Evolve Capital has become a subject matter expert in the Medicare-reimbursed home healthcare space, and principal Ben Mackay shares the playbooks with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell.

Tune in for Ben’s insights about other opportun...

As founder and CEO of Nyoo Health, Priya Bathija encourages healthcare leaders to ask questions, starting with, “How does this impact women differently?” Nyoo Health helps leaders align, inspire and execute initiatives that strengthen women’s health services and position their organizations at the forefront of care. In this conversation with McGuireWoods’ Micaela Enger and Gretchen Townshend, Priya reveals where returns on investme...

A range of new mental health treatments are available to Western medicine, and practitioners are figuring out how to use them effectively. Matt Brockmeier, co-founder and chief legal officer at Entheogyn and of counsel at Antithesis Law, joins Rebecca Nicholson, foundation director and wellness advisor at Prime Quadrant, to explore this evolving landscape with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell.

Matt discusses the tension ...

Payor services is an “enormous marketplace,” says Patrick Keavy, managing director at Bailey & Co. In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Patrick, who focuses on payor services within healthcare, shares his insights about the market and its future. Tune in as he reviews the growth of employer-sponsored healthcare, cost-containment strategies that companies can leverage, and the results of his re...

The tables turn as McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell steps into the guest seat, and Gordon Maner, CEO of the AMB group of companies and co-founder of Frontline Healthcare Partners, takes on hosting duties. Gordon and Geoff explore critical dynamics in healthcare M&A, from preparing first-time sellers for the rigors of a transaction to navigating the delicate partnership between private equity buyers and founder-led b...

From New York to the Rocky Mountains, Marc Cabrera’s journey has spanned high-stakes healthcare deals to hands-on community service. Once a Wall Street investment banker, Cabrera is now the founder of Four Corners Capital, a Colorado-based investment firm focused on healthcare. In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, he shares how his view on making an impact has evolved — from executing milestone tr...

Returning guest Lauren Makhoul, principal of Avalere Health, explains how private equity allows healthcare providers to focus on what matters most while business professionals handle the administrative burdens.

With McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, she highlights compelling evidence from recent studies showing how private equity-backed physician groups deliver better outcomes with lower costs.

A spinoff of The Corner Ser...

“For clients in the healthcare space, having a state-based compliance program has grown in importance,” says Tim Fry, partner in the healthcare group at McGuireWoods. With McGuireWoods colleague and host Geoff Cockrell, Tim unpacks how state-specific legal treatment has changed dramatically in the last several years.

He explains how states such as California and Oregon built hostility to private equity into their premerger notice la...

Lauren Makhoul of Avalere Health returns for the second installment of The Corner Series Shorts to discuss rooting out bad actors in private equity. In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Lauren advocates for a “nuanced perspective” that addresses the loopholes allowing bad actors to exist. She explains how mechanisms such as single TIN-billing exploitation affect all healthcare providers, not just ...

“Our role isn’t to dictate strategy from a distance,” says Tim Schulte, head of the Value Creation team at Council Capital. “We provide the tools and support — but the company is the one driving the vision.” In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Tim shares how the healthcare-focused private equity firm helps its portfolio companies grow through a robust support system.

This includes in-house experts...

Site-of-care optimization makes a difference, and that’s made possible by private equity investing in healthcare. Lauren Makhoul, principal at Avalere Health, explains this dynamic in the first installment of The Corner Series Shorts with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell.

When private equity-backed platforms invest in ambulatory surgical centers, they capture facility fees while moving procedures to lower-cost settings, ...

“For us to invest in a business and not improve it doesn’t make sense as an investment,” says Trevor Maurer, CEO of OMS360, a Shore Capital-backed dental platform specializing in oral surgery. In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Trevor explains how OMS360 invests and improves its partners’ practices through its operating system, which optimizes the patient journey through time and motion studies.

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Think a patent is bulletproof once it's issued? Think again. Amanda Wieker, partner at McGuireWoods and former acting vice chief administrative patent judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, reveals why patent validity can remain in flux for decades.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods colleague and host Geoff Cockrell, Amanda unpacks the complex lifecycle of patents in private equity investments. She explains challenges to p...

As the founder of Skytale Group, a boutique healthcare-focused investment banking and management consulting firm, Annie Hockey has a high-level view of what makes medical aesthetics businesses ready for private equity transactions. In this episode, she shares her observations with McGuireWoods healthcare partner Amanda Roenius, taking over hosting duties from Geoff Cockrell.

“I think the best time to transact is fully dependent on t...

In this episode of The Corner Series, Geoff Cockrell, McGuireWoods partner and host, is joined by Chris Day, CFO of Growth Orthopedics. Chris shares how Growth Orthopedics’ platform is expanding into underserved markets through a hub-and-spoke model, extending clinics up to two hours from surgical centers to increase access to care.

Tune in for his insights about how private equity investment improves healthcare access and why the w...

What is a white-hot market in healthcare tech? Governance, risk and compliance (GRC), says Bill Watts, who leads the healthcare tech group at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company. He also lists supply chain for pharma and drug commercialization and employer tech.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Bill unpacks how today's health tech investment landscape has evolved post-pandemic, with investors purs...