Services
Focusing on the capital and strategic needs of health care companies, VHS brings a mix of professional talent to address the challenges faced by healh care companies. VHS’s team, strategic partners, investors, and board members have experience growing companies in various sectors of health care, the capital markets, and an extensive knowledge of the issues affecting health care companies.

A major differentiation of VHS versus traditional investment banks is that our firm is comprised of professionals who have led, started, raised capital, grown, and exited health care growth companies. Combined with experience brought by our strategic partners and board members, VHS provides intellectual capital not normally available to growth companies; providing advice on business strategy, growth plans, investment tactics, deal structures, and strategic M&A advice.

Our team has developed and maintains an in-depth understanding of the secular and cyclical trends driving a particular industry sector. In addition, our team maintains close relationships not only with private and public growth companies, but also with venture capital, private equity, lenders, key institutional investors, technical experts, professional service providers, and other key industry participants. Through these relationships, VHS gains the opportunity to participate actively in the growth of promising health care companies.

Capital Markets
VHS provides specialized Capital Markets investment banking services to health care growth companies. We offer the strategic direction and access to capital, which we believe enables clients to determine and achieve their goals. Complex client funding needs are met with creative, yet attainable solutions while providing you the personalized financial advice and support you deserve. We typically work with companies seeking between $5 million to $200 million in equity, sub-debt, and/or senior debt.

VHS has a dedicated group of Capital Markets investment and business operations professionals focused on raising growth and acquisition capital privately or publicly for growth companies and providing the following services:

• Coordinates and manages all phases of the capital placement process
• Accesses a broad range of institutional investors and lenders
• Assists in developing effective marketing strategies for the issuer’s “story”
• Advises on negotiations with investors to achieve optimal transaction structure and terms

Each member of our Capital Markets team has extensive personal relationships with a wide variety of institutional investors. Our firm maintains a proprietary database of traditional, non-traditional, and strategic investors in health care venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, mezzanine capital, and senior debt.

The specialized experience of our Capital Markets team in both venture capital and real world business operations we believe offers issuers the advantage of strategic insight, marketplace credibility, broader distribution, and more competitive deal terms.

Mergers and Acquisitions
VHS offers advisory services with respect to purchases and sales of businesses; strategic partnerships; divestitures and corporate restructurings; fairness opinions of mergers & acquisitions; and valuations of businesses and technology assets. We believe that early identification of emerging industry and technical trends; together with focused industry knowledge enhances the effectiveness of our professionals' strategic and valuation advice. We typically advise on transactions between $5 million to $500 million in transaction value.

VHS offers clients a seasoned combination of industry knowledge, deal structuring experience, and transactional experience. We believe our team offers a proven capacity to bring transactions to successful conclusions. Our strategic M&A service team offers the following:

• Understanding of its clients' corporate objectives
• Identification and evaluation of acquisition candidates
• Maintaining close client relationships
• Managing due diligence
• Identification and negotiation with financing sources
• Negotiation, structuring and closing transactions

VHS serves as an advisor throughout the entire process working so that our client’s ultimate goal is successfully attained. M&A engagements require an extraordinary level of trust and discretion. As such, VHS and its team are committed both to a strict corporate code of ethics and client confidentially.