Water Street Healthcare Partners

Water Street Healthcare Partners is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare. Since its founding in 2005, it has completed more than 165 investments and strategic acquisitions across over 48 healthcare companies. The firm's investments span medical products and diagnostics, pharmaceutical and life sciences services/products, specialty distribution, and outsourced healthcare services. It partners with both established leaders and innovative growth-stage businesses to accelerate growth through capital deployment and strategic support.

The company does not directly conduct clinical trials or develop drugs but invests in firms that do.

Its approach emphasizes transformational growth by addressing critical needs in efficiency, access, patient outcomes—and it maintains long-term partnerships with major global healthcare players such as Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.

Recent notable activity includes facilitating the combination of CXV Global and Panacea Technologies to create a global provider of automation/digitization solutions for life sciences operations.

As an investor rather than an operator or developer of therapies/devices directly:

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• Portfolio breadth covers dozens of active programs via its holdings.
• Portfolio examples include Breg (orthopedic products), Capstone Development Solutions (pharma development), CareCentrix (care transition management), RTI Surgical (surgical implants).