About Northlight
A buyer of a care business is paying for its registrations, its staff and its relationships with funders and referrers. All of that can be lost in a badly run sale. Our job is to protect it.
The firm
Northlight Strategies is an M&A advisory firm working predominantly in healthcare, acting for sellers and buyers of mid-sized businesses. Owners who prepare get better offers. Acquirers who look further find better businesses.
The principal
Nick Handcock is the firm's principal. He has completed graduate studies in applied finance at UNSW and a psychology degree at Swinburne, and has held operating roles in healthcare and community services. He has led operations at one of the sector's best-known national care providers following its acquisition, and has run a buy-and-build program for a market-leading Australian healthcare group, covering origination, transaction structuring and negotiation, and post-merger integration of acquired businesses, their workforce and their clients. That background matters, because most of what goes wrong in a care sale comes down to people.
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He runs each process from preparation and engagement with buyers or targets through negotiation, completion and integration, and works alongside the client's accountants and lawyers through diligence.
