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The Walden Group® is the healthcare industry's leading investment banking firm specializing in small to medium size merger, acquisition and strategic transactions. Clients range from entrepreneurially-owned entities, to large public companies, to international organizations.

We are typically engaged to initiate, arrange for, and coordinate the sale, divestiture, or private financing of companies, divisions or product lines involved in health care or the life sciences. The firm also provides strategic growth planning services, including targeted acquisition searches and consultations regarding strategic options. In addition, it helps to incubate and may invest its own funds in worthy opportunities where it can assist in the achievement of certain near-term milestones.

With its active "deal and information flow" and Quarterly Strategic Healthcare M&A Reports, The Walden Group is a nerve center of merger and acquisition activity for the healthcare industry.

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The Walden Group® is a unique firm providing a unique service -- we specialize only in the healthcare industries, and focus only on a distinct segment of those industries -- "middle market" businesses and product lines. We bring the highest-quality, most professional merger and acquisition services to these discrete segments, while at the same time furnishing larger companies with a critical source of acquisition opportunities.

Through years of concentrated experience, we have perfected research, investigative and data gathering techniques that enable us to keep track of thousands of small to medium-size transaction opportunities within the healthcare industry and to readily identify and attract the larger companies most likely to be interested in those transactions.

We have assembled a wealth of information spanning the wide range of our industry niche, from manufacturers, to distributors, to information technology companies, to service firms of all kinds. We track their product lines, methods of distribution, strategic direction and manufacturing capabilities, in addition to other information.

Our product line categorization is extraordinary in its specificity and scope. We monitor product lines at the customer-vendor level, noting medical specialties and subspecialties addressed. We know, for example, which companies manufacture or market apnea products, anti-embolism devices, culture media, endoscopic instruments, immunochemistry systems, orthopedic products, electrophysiology catheters, patient monitoring apparatus, nuclear diagnostic equipment, implantable pacemaker accessories, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulators, and veterinary pharmaceuticals.

We record product line information in more than 650 such categories, enabling us to pinpoint, with extreme accuracy, strategic matches between companies, whether of a horizontal, vertical, diversification or investment nature.

We monitor trade exhibitions, professional association meetings, and industry and government trends, as well as mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances and technology transfers, all affecting the healthcare industry. We walk trade show floors, are called upon to publish articles in the most prominent trade publications, and lecture at major conventions. We are even recruited to chair prestigious conferences.

We are in regular contact with the key decision-makers of literally thousands of healthcare companies, financial buyers and intermediaries -- foreign and domestic. Hundreds of corporate and financial buyers keep us regularly apprised of their acquisition interests, and actively seek our advice. As a result, the firm has become a centralized source -- in effect, a market -- of extensive healthcare related merger and acquisition information.

We have made special efforts to develop relationships with informal sources of capital (such as private family investment groups) and foreign companies interested in making healthcare and life science industry investments and acquisitions.

We provide sophisticated, senior-level expertise and personal attention to every transaction, no matter what the value. Small to medium-size transactions often involve a thicket of business, legal, financial, tax, employment and personal issues. We pride ourselves in applying the special hands-on skills required to assist our clients in resolving these matters.

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