“There’s just a surge of financial buyers — private equity, independent investors and even search funds — that are looking to get their feet wet and acquire a platform within the space.”

Mike Moran, M&A Healthcare Advisors

By Bailey Bryant.

Amid ‘extraordinary’ deal flow, yet another merger and acquisition advisory firm has entered the behavioral health industry.

Called M&A Healthcare Advisors (MAHA), the new boutique M&A firm will focus on sell-side representation, M&A consulting and valuation services for lower-middle market health care clients. Behavioral health will be one of the firm’s main areas of focus, according to Mike Moran, partner and executive advisor at MAHA.

“There’s a large opportunity there,” Moran told Behavioral Health Business. “There’s just a surge of financial buyers — private equity, independent investors and even search funds — that are looking to get their feet wet and acquire a platform within the space.”