ECG’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team helps healthcare organizations analyze, structure, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships and affiliations of all types and sizes. Our partnership team takes a comprehensive approach, working with subject matter experts across our firm to address the operational and strategic needs of our clients and the near- and long-term impacts of each transaction.

We bring a pragmatic perspective to the process of M&A advisory services execution, drawing on our combined experience from conducting more than 400 M&A transaction advisory engagements with over 200 clients in 41 states. Our services span the entire transaction continuum, from strategic option assessments and target identification to deal structuring, due diligence, and partnership integration support.

Our M&A professionals have unparalleled expertise in transaction structuring and execution, having advised on a wide variety of innovative transactions ranging from strategic affiliations and joint ventures to fully integrated membership substitutions, mergers, and equity or asset acquisitions. 

We take a hands-on approach, offering highly differentiated guidance that expands the entirety of the transaction process:

• Strategic options analysis
• Target selection and evaluation 
• Sell-side and buy-side process facilitation
• Transaction planning, coordination, structuring, and negotiation 
• Due diligence support and facilitation
• Post-transaction integration planning and implementation
• Business enterprise and fixed asset valuations