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

Growth Capital
VHS provides specialized growth capital investment banking services to health care growth companies. We offer the strategic direction and access to capital, which enable 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 $50 million in equity, sub-debt, and/or senior debt.

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

• Coordinates and manages all phases of the private equity placement process
• Accesses a broad range of institutional
• 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 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, mezzanine capital, and senior debt.

The unique and specialized experience of our team in both venture capital and real world business operations 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 in acquisition; 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 work with transactions between $10 million to $200 million in enterprise value.

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

• Understands Its Clients' Corporate Objectives
• Identifies and Evaluates Strategic Partners
• Maintains Close Client Relationships
• Manages Extensive Due Diligence
• Identifies and Negotiates with Financing Sources
• Negotiates, Structures and Closes Transactions

VHS serves as an advisor throughout the entire process to ensure 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 absolute integrity in regards to standards of practice.

Consulting
Today’s health care industries are undergoing unprecedented changes. New companies and new technologies are being developed daily. Identifying the right strategy to launch or expand your business and introduce new technologies into the marketplace takes more than just market research technology and strategic planning…it takes a pure ability to EXECUTE and a clear understanding of marketing, sales, and distribution.

A focused, well-conceived, and simple business plan is the first step towards success and can often be a significant determinant of your ability to raise capital. Because we have worked with many growth companies and industry financial professionals we are able to present your vision in a manner that venture capitalists, lenders, and other investors will find both credible and compelling. Our strategic advisory services include:

• Strategic and Business Planning
• Financial Modeling and Valuations
• Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence
• Market Research and Demand Forecasts
• Marketing Plans and Market Entry Strategies
• Strategic Alliances and Partnerships Analysis