Healthcare Specialization
Ponder & Co. has been providing financial services to healthcare companies for nearly 30 years – leading the capital advisory and derivatives processes, providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, and managing investments.

By concentrating on one industry, we understand the issues our clients face. This means they do not spend time educating us on their business and capital-related objectives. In all likelihood, we have dealt with similar situations, and are able to address their needs immediately.

Experience
Our professionals average approximately 20 years of experience, much of this gained while working with Ponder & Co.. This level of expertise has helped us reach a number of milestones:
We ranked first in U.S. healthcare finance dollar volume and number of bond issues over the last 20 years, and have helped clients raise more than $58 billion of debt capital in 1021 financing transactions.
We have prepared more than 500 capital access plans, debt capacity and asset/liability analyses.
We have advised on the terms, conditions and price of interest rate swaps, with a notional amount exceeding $17 billion in the last two years alone.
We have advised on more than 100 completed M&A engagements, with transaction sizes ranging from $4 million to $1.5 billion.
We actively manage a portfolio of over $2 billion in fixed income investments for our clients.
Ponder & Co. has become the Trusted Advisor to hospitals, healthcare systems, academic medical centers, senior care facilities, and other healthcare providers.

Independence
Ponder & Co. is not part of a large financial conglomerate with multiple product lines to support. As a private, employee-owned company, Ponder & Co. is free to advise its clients on the best ways to meet their goals – free of conflict.