VIRTUAL: ACG CT Monthly Morning Coffee, HEALTHCARE, November 6, 2020

Tim is a Vice President at Zenyth Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm with a particular concentration on healthcare services. At Zenyth, Tim focuses on evaluating and executing new investment opportunities and supporting Zenyth’s current portfolio companies. Tim serves on the board of ReFocus Eye Health, a Zenyth-backed ophthalmology practice management platform in the Northeast / Mid-Atlantic. Prior to joining Zenyth, Tim worked at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm, where he managed strategy and due diligence engagements for corporate and private equity clients.

Sabari is the Vice President of Legal and Chief Compliance Officer of Zenyth Partners.  Zenyth is a private equity firm that invests in the healthcare sector, in particular healthcare services.  Sabari is focused on M&A transactions across Zenyth’s portfolio companies as well as supporting the other legal needs of the businesses.  Prior to joining Zenyth, Sabari practiced corporate law for many years at Thelen LLP, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Shiboleth LLP, with a focus on securities and capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.

Michael Fisher joined Varsity Healthcare Partners in 2016. Prior to joining Varsity, Mr. Fisher was a Vice President at Enhanced Equity Funds, a lower middle-market, healthcare-focused private equity firm. Mr. Fisher began his career in the healthcare investment banking group of Cowen and Company. He graduated from the University of Richmond with a BS in Business Administration and Concentrations in Finance and Economics.

Mr. Fisher serves on the Board of Directors for Angels of Care.

I’ve been focused on healthcare for almost my entire professional career, half as an equity research analyst (2006 – 2012) and most recently as an investment banker (since 2012).  After starting out as an analyst in the Financial Control Group at Morgan Stanley, I quickly realized that my passion lay elsewhere, which led me to join an up-and-coming analyst to build the first ever healthcare services equity research platform at BB&T Capital Markets.  I diligently worked my way up to Senior Research Analyst by age 27 (the youngest within the firm’s 15-member senior research team).

As a research analyst, I was regularly cited in major publications (Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters) and made several live-TV appearances on CNBC’s Squawk Box and The Call.

I graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in Finance and a Minor in Art History (concentration on Ancient Greece and Italian Renaissance studies) and hold series 7, 63, 79, 86 and 87 securities licenses.

Rebecca Matthews is a Partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Health Care and Corporate Departments as well as Co-chair of the firm’s Academic Medical Centers, Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group. She counsels health care clients through significant and strategic transactions to help them accomplish their business objectives and improve care in their service areas. Her understanding of health law and the health care industry has helped clients successfully navigate the uncertainties of a constantly changing regulatory environment. Rebecca has guided clients through mergers and affiliations, acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate reorganizations. Her health care regulatory experience includes certificate of need matters, licensure matters, HIPAA, fraud and abuse, and other Medicare compliance matters. Rebecca also advises academic medical centers, universities, and health care providers on licensing deals, R&D (research and development) agreements, strategic alliances, and contract issues. Rebecca understands the legal challenges health care clients face because she comes from that world. Prior to Wiggin and Dana, Rebecca was in-house counsel at a large integrated health care delivery system, where she was responsible for the legal aspects of various strategic relationships and compliance functions coordinated at the system level. Rebecca devotes significant time to advocating for increasing diversity among the health law bar. She contributes her high energy to hiring and recruitment for the firm and participates actively in a joint Yale New Haven Health System / Wiggin and Dana Diversity Scholar Program. She also serves on the Diversity+Inclusion Council for the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). Rebecca received her J.D. magna cum laude from Boston College Law School and her B.A. summa cum laude from The George Washington University. She is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. She teaches a course on health care business transactions at the Quinnipiac University School of Law.

Lance is a Partner in Grant Thornton’s Strategy and Transactions practice and co-leads the health care and life sciences practice and has over 25 years of professional services within large professional service organizations.

His primary experience is serving clients in all facets of the health care and life sciences industry. Including experience with anesthesiology, toxicology centers, outpatient surgery centers, pain management, dental service organizations, home health care, hospital systems, outsource ancillary service providers, specialty and long term care pharmacy, medical equipment manufacturers, clinical research facilities, standalone emergency departments, managed care, medical technology, capitation and health plans, generic and OTC and prescription drug manufacturers. Lance has extensive deal experience on buy-and sell side-due diligence engagements for both private equity and strategic clients.