Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions Jargon, Part 1

• Middle-Market – Transactions generally under $1 billion and involve non-publicly-traded companies.

• One-Off Deal – Purchase of a single facility or entity, not a multiple entity deal

• Portfolio Deal – Multiple facility or service sale

• “Deal Has Hair” – a complexities and complications of selling company

• ‘’Tuck-in’’ Deal – small niche deal that fills hole in company’s portfolio

• “The Ask” – A term or condition of the business deal that one side is requested

• "Open Up the Kimono” – seller is willing to disclose confidential company information

• Data Room – online virtual cloud where confidential due diligence is stored

• “Cratered” – as in the deal crated…fell apart