Behavioral Health Business December 30, 2024
The behavioral health dealmaking outlook has been sluggish for the past two years. But that could all change in 2025, as private equity investors look to hop back into the game driven by lowering interest rates and limited partners ready to cash in on their investments.
“2025 is going to be the best year that we have seen since 2021,” Dexter Braff, president of M&A advisory firm The Braff Group, said at Behavioral Health Business’ INVEST event. “It won’t be as good as 2021, which was outrageously great, but it’ll probably be the second-best year over the last decade.”
He noted that in 2021, money was cheap for investors, causing deal volume to surge. In fact, in 2021, private equity...