Behavioral Health Business June 3, 2024
While behavioral health deals have been relatively slow since the post-pandemic boom, many buyers and sellers are now evaluating different structures for deals that could include earnouts and seller notes.
“There absolutely has been a slowdown in M&A activity really since 2022. And there continues to be a real gap in valuation expectations between buyers and sellers,” Amy O’Keefe, a partner at Nixon Peabody, said during a Behavioral Health Business webinar. “We’re seeing a lot of buyers try to bridge that gap by using things like seller notes and earnouts … These structures impact the value and the dollars sellers put into their pocket at closing.”
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