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You’re a Healthcare Business Owner and an Acquirer Approaches you, What to do next
We recently launched a behavioral health business into the market in a competitive M&A process. Within three weeks, we have 70 acquirers under NDA pursuing our client. Here is the breakdown of the types of...
The 10 Areas Behavioral Health Acquirers Investigate Before They Decide Your Business is Worth the Price
We have two behavioral/mental healthcare clients being acquired right now. One is early in the process with over 50 acquirers diligencing them, the other is farther along having signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with an...
Mergers And Acquisitions Insight for Business Owners: The Issues that Can Occur When a One-Off Acquirer Approaches You
When an acquirer approaches you directly, remember: they have all the leverage. Here's what that looks like in practice: No competition = no price tension. The buyer's offer may or may not be correlative with true...
3 Decisions to Increase the Valuation of your Behavioral Health Business in 2026
I had a meeting recently with a behavioral/mental health owner who plans to sell within the next 3-4 years. He’s growing and starting to think more intentionally about what acquirers will actually care about. He...
5 Important (but Less Talked About) Things to Know When Selling or Partially Divesting From Your Business (Part 3 of 3)
5 Important (but Less Talked About) Things to Know When Selling or Partially Divesting From Your Business (Part 2 of 3)
5 Important (but Less Talked About) Things to Know When Selling or Partially Divesting From Your Business (Part 1 of 3)
For Mental Health Care Business Owners: Questions Acquirers are Asking in Initial M&A Diligence in 2026
Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio On sell-side processes in Q1 2026, we have now interacted with over 40 acquirers in mental and behavioral health. To help business owners prepare for acquisition, we decided to aggregate...
Top 6 M&A Questions Business Owners Ask on Initial Calls with ASA Ventures
Photo Credit: Andrea De Santis As a sell-side (meaning we only represent business owners) M&A advisor, ASA meets with many business owners, founders, and CEOs throughout the year and in doing so, we’re asked many...