In an article published by the Jacksonville Business Journal, Gunster's Sam Prokop examines how Jacksonville's healthcare M&A market is defying the national slowdown trend. While dealmaking has cooled across much of the country due to difficult access to capital and elevated interest rates, the Southeast, and Northeast Florida in particular, continues to experience steady consolidation activity driven by a growing population, a deep concentration of healthcare providers, and significant buyer interest in the healthcare and related technology industries.
"The consolidation wave is not just coming, it is already here, and it is accelerating," wrote Prokop. "The leaders who will come out ahead are those who treat a potential transaction not as a distant event, but as a strategic initiative deserving the same rigor and planning as any other critical business decision".
Samantha Prokop serves as head of Gunster’s Healthcare Transactions team. In her counsel to corporate and healthcare companies, Sam serves as an advisor to clients establishing new businesses, executing mergers and acquisitions and navigating business disputes and break-ups. Sam has served as a risk manager and general counsel for a multi-location hospital system. Through her range of experience, Sam aims to help her clients remove barriers to develop practical, workable solutions to their complex problems, addressing immediate issues while developing long-term strategies for growth.
