Ferrer Freeman & Company, LLC, is a private equity firm located in Greenwich, CT focused on making growth capital investments in healthcare companies. Since their founding in 1995, FFC has invested in excess of $900 million across 36 companies in the healthcare sector.
FFC invests in established companies in the lower/middle market with significant growth opportunities, backs entrepreneurial management teams, and then leverages their comprehensive healthcare network and repeatable value creation model to accelerate growth and build market leading and strategically valuable companies. They collaborate with their portfolio company’s management team to improve operational performance, add executive and Board talent, create business development opportunities, and develop liquidity strategies.
FFC believes that experience and specialization in the healthcare industry are required to manage risk and generate consistent and attractive returns. The healthcare industry represents a vast and complex network of interconnected entities which include providers, payers, suppliers, information technology developers, and regulators that must work together to make the system function efficiently. Since FFC has invested across the entire healthcare industry, they believe they have a unique perspective, network, and ability to help create value for entrepreneurs and other shareholders.
FFC’s deliberate approach to value creation in healthcare has a history of success. FFC has financed several companies that are leaders in their respective marketplaces including: Amerigroup, Sicor, United Surgical Partners, Vistacare, and Volcano. In addition, FFC has a track record of creating liquidity having exited 26 of its 36 investments to date.