Healthcare & Life Sciences Services Market Insights January 2024

2023 included notable M&A activity in the Healthcare & Life Sciences Services market, propelled by ongoing scientific and technological advancement and regulatory changes, and strong interest from private equity investors. Key segments attracting market demand included medical communications, commercialization consulting, regulatory affairs, outsourced drug development services, revenue cycle management, EHR and clinical workflow consulting, and … Continued

Cybersecurity’s Golden Mean

For nearly 2,500 years, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old question of how to balance the three pillars of cybersecurity: technology, processes, and people. Well, not quite. As an explicit concept applied to cybersecurity, this framework has been advanced for a mere few decades. Nonetheless, the core understanding behind it traces back to Ancient Greece, … Continued

With ESG, No One Size Fits All

Business leaders are familiar with a fair number of acronyms: EBITDA, CAGR, BCM, CSR, GRC. Yet, one acronym is becoming increasingly important in the alphabet soup of a decision maker’s day-to-day: ESG. At its core, Environmental, Social and Governance is an evolving framework for stakeholders to assess, implement, measure and report how a company operates … Continued

Clearsight Advises Deloitte on the Sale of its Life Sciences Pricing and Contracting Solutions Business to Model N

Clearsight Advisors, Inc. is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive financial advisor to Deloitte & Touche LLP on the sale of its life sciences pricing and contracting solutions business (PaCS) and underlying technology to Model N, Inc. (NYSE: MODN), which closed on December 31, 2020. The transaction broadens Model N’s portfolio to better serve … Continued

IT Compliance Considerations for M&A Stakeholders

When it comes to M&A, IT non-compliance on the part of the seller can risk collapsing a deal, especially now when consumer data and privacy are invaluable to both customers and businesses. In a recent ACG webinar, IT compliance specialists from DHG Private Equity shared their thoughts on how companies from every sector and the … Continued

Big Data & Compliance: For Better or Worse

The explosion of Big Data, both tools for gathering and for analyzing, has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for Chief Compliance Officers. The Big Data and Compliance marriage was initially thought to be a positive transformational tool. During the honeymoon period, pundits lauded the new ability for large corporates to gather massive amounts of data … Continued

Compliance Services Driving M&A In 2014

In the last several months we have seen an increasing interest in companies whose primary service offering includes compliance and/or risk management solutions. Notable transactions include New Mountain Capital’s acquisition of ACA Compliance Group, First American Financial’s acquisition of Interthinx, Inc., and Wipro’s acquisition of Opus CMC.  While it would be premature to suggest the … Continued