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The New Healthcare (Fourth of a Series)

We continue our special series on COVID-19 impacted healthcare, with a private equity conversation. Our guest is the partner of a NY-based firm. He has over two decades of experience investing in healthcare businesses. How did the current crisis unfold for you and your firm? “For the first couple of weeks it was a 100%…

PDI Picks – 7/13/2020

Europe’s renaissance amid the fundraising slump Our final H1 2020 figures show the region grabbing investor attention – at least on a relative basis. It has not been the brightest of starts to a fundraising year, with just $63.1 billion raised by private debt funds globally in the first half of 2020 according to the…

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 7/6/2020

2Q20 US syndicated down 46% y-o-y; 1H20 off 33% Following the shock, fear and aggressive spread of the Covid-19 virus which brought the world to a standstill in 1Q20, the pandemic and its impact on the global psyche became a mainstay in 2Q20. Across the capital markets, virtual office environments were up and running far…

The Post-COVID Doctor/Patient Relationship

We continue our special healthcare series with the heart of the matter: the doctor/patient relationship. We asked our primary physician in a Zoom interview about his experience. “Thank goodness for telemedicine,” he told us. “I can be very effective and have meaningful discussions with my patients. A lot of these now involve testing for the […]