The Corner Series

Amanda Blank, CEO of Founders Beauty Group, joins McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell to discuss the growth of her strategic med spa platform, built on a hub-and-spoke model across four geographies through the acquisition of established, doctor-owned, cash-pay practices.

Amanda shares how she evaluated different capital sources during the company's growth, including her decision to partner with high-net...

The provider services M&A market is probably approaching 50% of peak deal volume — well below historical norms — yet J. Kyle Brown sees real momentum building. Kyle is managing director and lead of the provider services group at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Kyle unpacks how, after holding over a hundred private equity pr...

Compliance is no longer a fire drill to be ignored. Wiks Moffat, founder and CEO of Calyx Compliance with 30 years of healthcare compliance experience, says the enforcement environment has accelerated, with AI now helping regulators spot outliers.

In conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Wiks explains how most companies still aren’t doing enough self-assessment, how billing and coding is...

Ian Gardner and his wife struggled to assemble a holistic care team during her pregnancy. At the end of their journey, they had a son — and a solution they called MilkWise, a one-stop portal where mothers can access experts and specialists so they can focus on their infants, not on searching through their various healthcare packages.

“We saw platforms and companies that provided specific components, say, for postp...

McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell invites colleague Amy Cassalia — whose practice is heavily weighted on life sciences transactions — to share insights about the post-closing period of these complex deals. The wide-ranging conversation covers the dynamics of “contingent consideration,” investor risk and buyers’ leverage.

Amy explains why she sees high-level use of contingent pay...

The secondary market has grown to roughly $220 billion as GPs and LPs scramble for liquidity in a private markets cycle stuck in a “worse distribution profile” for three and a half years. Chris Lawrence, managing partner at Labyrinth Capital Partners, joins McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell to demystify GP-led secondaries.

Chris breaks down continuation vehicles, strip sales and fund restructurin...

Oncology commands roughly 40% of the national drug spend. Retina is close behind. “If you follow the drug spend, you’ll find that the distributors are really building an ecosystem around it,” says Jeanne Proia, managing director at Cross Keys Capital and president of its healthcare services group.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Jeanne unpacks the market. Unlike...

This special episode is a crossover between The Corner Series and Provident’s Healthcare DealCast released across both McGuireWoods’ and Provident Healthcare Partners’ channels.

McGuireWoods partner Geoff Cockrell is joined by Steve Grassa, director of Provident Healthcare Partners, for a wide-ranging discussion on the healthcare services landscape including the provider services market, opportunities...

How did Allied Digestive Health build a gastroenterology program that’s “second to none” with roughly 200 gastroenterologists across New York and New Jersey? CEO Matt Devine unpacks the strategies, such as investing in technology and having one EMR across the platform that’s world class.

“If we’re just going out and getting larger, that’s nice and that’s admirable. But what we r...

“Our big mantra is: ‘Medicine is local,’ ” says Kevin Baker, who partners with emergency medicine groups across the United States in his role as director of development at Emergency Care Partners.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Kevin lays out the landscape of the U.S. emergency department sector, where about a third of hospitals now in-source their physic...

One of the most misunderstood provisions in the entire tax code, the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) has been around for more than 30 years. Yet it remained largely dormant — until now.

The QSBS is “unlike anything in the code,” says Shahrooz Shahnavaz, a tax partner at McGuireWoods.

In this conversation with colleague and host Geoff Cockrell, Shahrooz reviews the history of this unique benefit a...

Home and alternate-site infusion therapy is a highly fragmented market. Just two large players command 35% to 40% market share while more than 800 smaller providers making up the remainder. And that fragmentation is exactly what's drawing private equity interest.

Don Hooker, director of research at Bourne Partners, a leading life science investment firm, joins McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell to unpack the ...

Fifty years ago, the United States had 75 car companies. Today, there are fewer than five. The same consolidation dynamics are reshaping physician practice management, says Ezra Simons, a co-founder and partner at Physician Growth Partners, which has been on the leading edge of consolidation in provider practices nationwide. “I think what we’ll see over the next 10 years of physician practice management is mergers of eq...

From his perspective as CEO and managing partner at Physician Growth Partners, Michael Kroin sees an “interesting time” where different types of buyers are getting into the provider services sector at the same time that payers are aggressively pursuing independent practices.

“You see payers start to have interest in these private equity-backed groups as well or continue to have interest. So, that provides a number ...

“Fund one is tough,” says Henry Yan, principal at Whistler Capital Partners, reflecting on the firm’s successful first fundraise. In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Henry unpacks the challenges and opportunities of raising capital as an emerging manager in today’s competitive fundraising environment.

Tune in for his thoughts about the use of placement agents for emerging m...

“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 out...

“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, R...

“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...

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 ot...