Pre-close · Healthcare Services

Healthcare Services Deals: Lease Assignments Done Right

Managing Lease Assignments on healthcare services deals, with the structure protection and capital connectivity an independent sponsor actually needs.

EV range $15M to $120M EV EBITDA $3M to $20M Audience Buy-side / Sponsor
The deal context

Healthcare Services deals in the lower middle market run a specific playbook. Lease Assignments is where the structure either holds or starts to leak.

The typical healthcare services platform sits at $15M to $120M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $20M range. The thesis runs on roll-up of physician practices and ancillary service lines. Most off-market healthcare deals come through advisors who have seen the structure before. Have one in your call list.

The moves

How Lease Assignments actually gets structured.

  1. Pull every lease, estoppel, and SNDA in the data room.

  2. Identify landlord consent requirements and prepare consent packages.

  3. Address landlord recapture rights that can be triggered at change of control.

  4. Sequence consent collection to avoid a last-minute single-landlord veto.

  5. In healthcare services, layer in PC/MSO structuring as part of the Lease Assignments workstream.

The common mistake

Waiting until two weeks before close to request landlord consents. Landlords use the timeline against the buyer.

Jason's take
"Lease consents are the deal-killer that never makes the highlight reel. Start early, finish early."
Jason Powell · Lease Assignments
Capital after close

The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.

Capital after close is where the IRR actually gets made. The right introductions at month nine through month thirty are where this practice works as hard as it does at the LOI.

MONTH 18
Senior refi
MONTH 24
Dividend recap
MONTH 36
Growth equity
YEAR 4–5
Strategic exit
ENGAGE THE PRACTICE

Lease Assignments for Healthcare Services, on independent sponsor terms.

Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.