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Unlocking Deal Value

How Operational Due Diligence Shapes a Feasible, High-Impact Value Creation Strategy

8th December 2025

L.E.K. Consulting

Hear from L.E.K. Consulting on why linking strategic and operational insights during diligence is essential for healthcare investors seeking robust value creation plans – covering current market pressures, the pitfalls of traditional siloed diligence, and the path to a more effective approach. Join this webinar to hear from Andre Valente (Partner), Tom Marshall (Partner), Claudio Molinaro (Partner) and Sebastien Beausoleil (Principal) speaking to EHIA’s Deputy Chair Henry Elphick.

The recording and slide deck from the first webinar in this series of Investing in Healthcare Insights is available to non-members. Future webinars will be restricted to Members of EHIA and clients of L.E.K. Consulting. If you are interested to find out more about the benefits of membership of EHIA, please contact sarah.ward@ehia.org.

Podcast

European Healthcare Laid Bare – an interview with Ludovic Phalippou, Professor at Said Business School, University of Oxford

Buy Professor Phalippou’s Private Equity Laid Bare, written for an MBA course on private equity but with the intention to have a book that reads more like a novel than a regular textbook. The book aims to familiarise the reader with the terminology and mechanics of private markets using examples, real-life situations and results from academic studies.

Official Journal

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Investors in Healthcare is a digital first resource delivering sector focussed news, data and analysis. The journal covers M&A deals, capital raising and investment rounds in the healthcare and life science sector of Europe and the Middle East. It also publishes news stories and research on the latest developments in the market and run interviews with some of the key players shaping the future of the industry. It is the official journal of the European Healthcare Investor Association.

Members of European Healthcare Investor Association qualify for complimentary access. Please contact us to receive your complimentary coupon code.

Non-members can subscribe for access to the full archive of 4,000+ articles covering all the sectors – life sciences, pharma, healthcare, veterinary, social care, and all of Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

Trade Associations

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Invest Europe is the world’s largest association of private capital providers. They represent Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure investment firms, as well as their investors, including some of Europe’s largest pension funds and insurers. Their aim is to promote a better understanding of private equity that enables their members to invest capital and expertise into improving businesses and generating returns for investors, free from unnecessary regulation and constraints.

Invest Europe’s members take a long-term approach to investing in privately-held companies, from start-ups to established firms. They inject not only capital but dynamism, innovation and expertise. This commitment helps create healthy and sustainable companies across Europe, securing millions of jobs and delivering strong returns for leading pension funds and insurers whose members depend on them for their retirements.

The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity and venture capital industry in the UK.

For more than three decades they have represented the industry and delivered authoritative research and analysis, proprietary publications, specialist training, topical conferences and best practice standards.

Their membership comprises more than 750 influential firms, including over 325 private equity and venture capital houses, as well as institutional investors, professional advisers, service providers and international associations. They work together to provide capital and expertise to growing businesses, to unlock potential and to deliver enhanced returns to the millions who directly and indirectly invest in the industry.

The Healthcare Private Equity Association (“HCPEA”) is a not-for-profit trade association whose mission is to support the reputation, knowledge, and relationships of the healthcare private equity community. Their member firms are committed to building successful enduring healthcare businesses that “do well” while also “doing good.”

HCPEA’s 70+ member firms are among the best known, most respected private equity firms in the world. Their members employ over 400 investment professionals throughout the United States and Canada. Collectively, HCPEA’s member firms have over $2 trillion AUM and represent one of the largest portfolios of privately held healthcare-related businesses encompassing services, information technology, pharmaceuticals, devices among other sectors.

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The American Investment Council (AIC) is an advocacy and resource organization established to develop and provide information about the private investment industry and its contributions to the long-term growth of the U.S. economy and retirement security of American workers. Member firms of the AIC consist of the country’s leading private equity and growth capital firms united by their successful partnerships with limited partners and American businesses. Private equity is committed to supporting small businesses and American jobs, even when times are tough. Throughout the pandemic, nearly half of all private equity investments were in companies with fewer than 500 employees.