Healthcare investment experience shaped in Korea.
Our healthcare investment strategy is grounded in experience developed in Korea, where we have pursued a flexible, entrepreneurial, and long-term approach to investing in the healthcare sector.
Our Healthcare Investment Experience in Korea
Our healthcare investment strategy is grounded in experience developed in Korea, where we have pursued a flexible, entrepreneurial, and long-term approach to investing in the healthcare sector.
Depending on the opportunity, our investment activities have included private credit and lending, private equity and minority investments, strategic equity partnerships, joint ventures, and full acquisitions of healthcare businesses and real estate.
This flexible investment model allows us to structure transactions around the needs and objectives of business owners, while providing the capital, resources, technology, and strategic support needed to grow and strengthen healthcare businesses over the long term.
We believe this experience provides an important foundation as we establish our presence in Canada. Our objective is to bring the same flexible, owner-focused, and long-term investment philosophy to the Canadian healthcare market, with a particular focus on pharmacy businesses and medical and healthcare real estate.
We are bringing an investment philosophy developed through experience in Korea and applying it to the significant opportunities we see emerging across Canada’s healthcare market.
The right structure for each opportunity.
We are not limited to a single transaction structure. Depending on the opportunity and the owner’s objectives, we may participate in any one or a combination of the following strategies:
Growth Capital or Private Credit
Provide growth capital or private credit.
Strategic Equity
Make a minority or strategic equity investment.
Joint Ventures
Partner with an existing owner through a joint venture or other strategic structure.
Controlling Interest
Acquire a controlling interest.
Full Acquisition
Complete a full acquisition.
Our Healthcare Investment Strategy
Our healthcare investment strategy is grounded in an experienced, flexible, entrepreneurial, and long-term approach to investing in the healthcare sector.
We first seek to identify the right healthcare asset—whether it is a healthcare business, pharmacy, medical practice, or healthcare real estate opportunity. We then look beyond the existing asset to understand how technology, digitalization, innovation, and operational improvements can create additional value.
Our approach is not simply to acquire and operate. We look for opportunities where we can invest capital, introduce technology, improve operations, enhance the patient or customer experience, and build a stronger and more valuable healthcare business over time.
This flexible model allows us to structure transactions around the needs and objectives of business owners, while providing capital, resources, technology, and strategic support.
We believe healthcare presents an especially interesting opportunity because many established healthcare businesses and real estate assets have strong underlying fundamentals, while still having significant opportunities for modernization, digital transformation, and technological innovation.
Our goal is to find the right healthcare asset, the right investment structure, and the right opportunities to create additional value through technology and innovation—building stronger healthcare businesses and assets for the long term.
Investment activities
- Private credit and lending
- Private equity and minority investments
- Strategic equity partnerships
- Joint ventures
- Controlling investments
- Full acquisitions of healthcare businesses and real estate
Identify. Invest. Digitalize. Grow.
A straightforward framework for evaluating and building long-term value.
Identify
Identify the right healthcare asset and the right opportunity.
Understand
Understand the business, its people, operations, and potential.
Digitalize
Identify opportunities for digitalization, technology, AI, and innovation to add value.
Invest
Invest capital and resources where we believe we can make a meaningful difference.
Improve
Improve operations, patient experience, efficiency, and scalability.
Grow
Grow the business and create long-term value.
Healthcare Investment Experience
For more than 11 years, we have invested across a broad range of healthcare businesses, technologies, services and real estate.
Our Experience at a Glance
Capital Invested / Deployed
Healthcare Investments
Healthcare Businesses & Assets
Years of Investment Experience
Medical & Healthcare-Related Properties
Healthcare Sectors & Areas of Investment
Primary Investment Market
Our investment experience has primarily been in Korea, with additional international investment experience and an expanding global investment strategy.
Healthcare businesses, technologies, services, and real estate.
Our portfolio and investment experience has included a diverse range of healthcare-related businesses and assets, including:
- Retail & Community Pharmacies
- Online & Digital Pharmacies
- Specialist Clinics
- Eye-Care Clinics
- Medical Aesthetics
- IVF & Fertility
- Diagnostic & Medical Laboratories
- Home Healthcare
- Telemedicine
- Healthcare Software & IT
- Healthcare Marketplaces
- Medical Supplies & Consumables
- Medical Supply Distribution
- Retirement Residences
- K-Beauty & Korean Skincare
- Vitamins & Supplements
- Weight Management
- Sleep & Wellness
- Veterinary Clinics
- Retail Healthcare platforms
- Medical & Healthcare Real Estate
Our experience extends across both operating healthcare businesses and healthcare-related real estate, as well as technology-enabled and consumer-focused healthcare opportunities.
Important context and additional information.
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Over the past 11 years, our healthcare investment experience has included investments made through one or a combination of Private Credit & Lending, Private Equity & Minority Investments, Strategic Equity Partnerships, Joint Ventures, Controlling Investments, and Full Acquisitions of Healthcare Businesses and Real Estate.
Our experience has spanned a single or multiple investment(s) in a particular healthcare business, and over a broad range of healthcare sectors, including Pharmacy & Digital Pharmacy, Healthcare Services & Clinics, Diagnostics & Laboratory Services, Home Healthcare & Senior Care, Telemedicine & Digital Health, Healthcare Technology & Software, Medical Supplies & Distribution, Medical Aesthetics & Beauty, Fertility & Reproductive Health, Eye Care, Consumer Health & Wellness, Veterinary Healthcare, and Medical & Healthcare Real Estate.
The information presented represents our broader investment experience and portfolio history, and may include both current and realized investments. The sectors and investment activities described are provided for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as representing current holdings, a complete list of investments, or an indication that we are currently seeking investments in every sector identified.
Due to applicable Korean confidentiality, privacy and other legal or contractual requirements, we do not publicly identify all of the companies and assets in our Korean investment portfolio.
We are, however, pleased to discuss our investment experience with qualified investors, prospective partners, business owners and other interested parties.
If you would like to learn more about a particular healthcare sector, investment structure or transaction, please contact us directly.
For qualified parties, we can arrange a confidential discussion to provide additional information regarding our portfolio and investment history. Specific portfolio information may be made available following execution of an appropriate Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and subject to applicable confidentiality obligations.
Please reach out to us to arrange a confidential conversation.
We would be pleased to discuss our Korean healthcare investment experience, investment structures, sectors and real estate portfolio in greater detail.
Our Team & Technology Advantage
Our team is one of the key advantages behind our Canadian healthcare strategy.
We have built a technology-driven, highly entrepreneurial team with a strong understanding of innovation, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and the rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Our people are fast-moving, execution-focused, hardworking, and passionate about building businesses and identifying new opportunities.
Our team also brings decades of combined experience across pharmacy, healthcare, medical and healthcare real estate, technology, business development, and investment. This diversity of experience allows us to look at healthcare opportunities from multiple perspectives and identify opportunities that others may overlook.
We believe that the future of healthcare will increasingly be shaped by technology, AI, digital platforms, automation, data, and changing consumer expectations. Our objective is not simply to participate in these changes, but to identify them early and act on them.
Our philosophy is simple: identify the trend early, understand its potential, and execute quickly.
Meet the people behind the strategy.
Explore the leadership, advisors, and specialists bringing healthcare, pharmacy, real estate, technology, and finance experience together.
Hanguk Uilyo (‘Korean Healthcare’). We invest in Canadian pharmacies and healthcare real estate with a long-term perspective.
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