17th Annua; Investments and M&A in HEALTHCARE

October 7-8, 2025

Mary M. Gates
Learning Center,
Old Town Alexandria, VA

CONFERENCE
OVERVIEW

The new Trump administration is ushering in a wide range of disruptive changes in healthcare policy. These changes will inevitably produce new opportunities affecting healthcare dealmaking at every level.

Therefore, we’ve scheduled iiBIG’s 17th Annual Investment and M&A Opportunities in HEALTHCARE to be held in Old Town Alexandria, VA on October 7-8, 2025… to maximize the participation of DC-based experts and insiders.

The theme of this year’s conference will be:

Profiting from Healthcare Investment Opportunities in the Trump Era.

Our executive faculty will include our traditional senior-level and C-suite executive representatives and decision-makers from across the HEALTHCARE investing spectrum.

In addition, we are actively recruiting key healthcare policy makers from inside the Trump Administration and other influencers to participate on this year’s executive faculty including:

Key players from HHS (Department of Health & Human Services)
CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), and
Federal and State healthcare policy experts and insiders representing Think Tanks, Trade Associations,andCapitol Hill legislators and staff to share well-informed views on the latest developments affecting the healthcare deal-flow landscape.

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If you or your organization would like to be represented on our 30+ member executive faculty… to share your expertise as participants on our interactive roundtable discussions, please complete our online JOIN OUR FACULTY application.

THE AGENDA

This year’s conference will feature interactive roundtable discussion on topics like these:

STATE of the HEALTHCARE Investment and M&A INDUSTRY – 2025-2026: A view from the proverbial “30-thousand feet.”
Regulatory, Legislative & Legal Roundtable: The latest from the Administration, Capitol Hill and the Courts on changes affecting healthcare deal-making. Will States play a larger regulatory role?
Strategic Investors Roundtable: How are hospitals and other providers navigating the new environment to grow market share? Will acquisition of multi-physician practices and non-hospital specialty care providers continue to set deal flow records?
Private Equity & VC Investment Horizons: With more ‘dry powder’ and more assets under management (AUM) than ever before where are financial buyers seeing deal-flow growth?
Healthcare Technology Innovators Roundtable: How are healthcare organizations adding value and maximizing EBITDA by adopting AI, advanced data analytics and other information technologies that improve efficiencies, staff recruitment/retention and, delivering better patient care?
Distressed & Turnaround Opportunities in Healthcare: How will reductions in Medicare, Medicaid and Private payor reimbursements affect business models and create new deal-flow for Opportunity Investors?
Transaction Services Roundtable: Valuation, Due Diligence and the Dos & Don’ts before, during and after the Deal.
Non-Hospital Roll-Ups: Opportunities in Multi-Physician Practices, Outpatient Ambulatory Centers & Other Specialty Sectors.
Healthcare Partnerships & Joint Ventures Roundtable: What are the primary factors affecting the decision to enter into partnerships and joint ventures versus to acquire or merge?
Healthcare Lenders Roundtable: Hear from traditional brick-and-mortar lenders, alternative non-bank issuers and, private debt originators on the role of marshalling leverage in getting healthcare deals done.

*Not all of the topics above will necessarily appear on the final agenda or, some may be merged with other sessions with subject matter relevance. Likewise topics may be added based on timely input from our network of experts and clients. If you would like to apply to join one or more of these interactive discussion(s) outlined above or would like to propose a topic that is not listed, please complete our online JOIN OUR FACULTY application. A member of our conference team will respond to you right away!

WHO WILL
ATTEND

From Public and Private Healthcare & Life Sciences Enterprises:

CEOs
CFOs
Executive Heads of Acquisitions and Strategic Partnerships

Heads of Investor Relations
Corporate & Business Development Executives
Strategic Planning Executives
General Counsel

From the Financial & Investment Community:

Commercial & Investment Banking Professionals
Executives involved in middle-market healthcare & life sciences deal transactions
Institutional Investors

Executives from private equity, LBO and venture funds
M&A Specialists
Senior, mezzanine and other lenders

From the Professional Advisory and Service Provider Community:

Attorneys
Consultants
Deal intermediaries

Due diligence, & Market Intelligence Specialists
Valuation & Appraisal firms
Tax & Accounting professionals

REGISTER TODAY

…And join Healthcare & Life Sciences Thought-Leaders at iiBIG’s
17th Annual Investment and M&A Opportunities in HEALTHCARE.

STANDARD RATE

(per person)

$1695

STANDARD RATE is for executives from financial and/or deal-making services firms (e.g. law firms, private equity, VC, investment banks, tax and accounting advisors, transaction advisory consultants and similar firms).

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER RATE:

(per person)

$895

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER / ENTREPRENEUR RATE is for executives from healthcare provider enterprises that provide healthcare products and/or services (e.g. hospitals, med device firms, residential or home healthcare organizations & etc.). NOTE: Investor representatives (e.g. from Private Equity Firms, etc.) who have provider firms within their portfolios DO NOT qualify for this rate and must register at the STANDARD RATE (Registrations in this category are subject to verification & approval).

GROUP RATES

(Groups of 3 or More)

SAVE MORE!

DISCOUNTED RATES are available for Groups of 3 or More. (Group rates in effect at all times – no deadlines). For more information, contact:
Hank Woji, VP Business Development, iiBIG
Phone: 713-806-0354 | Email: HankW@iiBIG.com

CONTACT HANK!

SPEAKING FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES:

For information on becoming involved as a member of our executive speaking faculty please complete the online JOIN OUR FACULTY application, or contact the conference organizer:

Don Buford, Founder & CEO, iiBIG
Phone: 212-300-2521
Email: DonB@iibig.com

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT / PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

Seeking more visibility for your firm? Stand out in the crowd and benefit from pre-event as well as onsite marketing & branding exposure. Becoming a conference sponsor is the most cost-effective marketing spend your organization can make. Sponsor organizations that confirm early may be provided the opportunity to be represented on the executive faculty (on a space-available basis). For more information, please contact:

Hank Woji, VP Business Development, iiBIG
Phone: 713-806-0354
Email: HankW@iiBIG.com

CO-MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES:

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Communications@iiBIG.com

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Continuing Education Credits (e.g. CLE, CPE, CME, etc.) may be available for attending this iiBIG conference. Following the conference, attendees may request to be provided with a “Certificate of Completion” and a copy of the conference agenda, showing topics, length of sessions, and name(s) and professional affiliation(s) of presenter(s) for each session. Attendees wishing to apply for continuing education credits for attending this conference may submit this documentation to the relevant organization in his/her state when applying for such credits. In accordance with general standards, one continuing education credit is generally granted per each session based on a 50-minute hour.