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Karan Garg is a Partner and serves as Head of Healthcare Services, focused on multi-site healthcare and physician practice management platforms. He joined the firm in 2023.

Karan has nearly 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience, the majority of which have been focused on advising founders and private equity clients on sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions, private debt financings, and equity raise transactions across the healthcare services landscape with a particular focus on multi-site and physician practice sub-sectors. Prior to joining Solomon Partners, Karan was Managing Director and a senior member in Houlihan Lokey’s Healthcare group where he spent over 15 years expanding the firm’s healthcare services practice.

Select recently publicly announced, completed advisory transactions include:

  • Acquisition of Ortho Nebraska by InTandem Capital Partners
  • Sale of Lightwave Dental to Lindsay Goldberg
  • Minority equity raise for HighFive Healthcare by Norwest Venture Partners
  • Recapitalization of Mosaic Dental Collective to Audax Private Equity
  • Recapitalization of Paradigm Oral Health by BlackRock
  • Acquisition of GI Alliance by Apollo
  • Sale of Altima Dental to 123 Dentist / KKR
  • Sale of Mid-Atlantic Dental to Sonrava / New Mountain Capital
  • Recapitalization of Smile Doctors by THL
  • Acquisition of U.S. Oral Surgery Partners by Oak Hill Capital Partners
  • Acquisition of National Dentex by Cerberus
  • Recapitalization of Canadian Orthodontic Partners by Pamlico Capital
  • Recapitalization of Ambulatory Management Services by VSS
  • Recapitalization of DECA Dental by Blackstone
  • Acquisition of Lighthouse Autism Centers by Cerberus
  • Sale of HOPCo (the CORE Institute) to Linden and Audax Private Equity
  • Sale of Autism in Motion to hopebridge / Arsenal Capital.

Education

Karan holds a BS from DePaul University.

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  • Key Takeaways from the ADSO Summit 2025

    At the ADSO Summit, Solomon’s Head of Healthcare Services Karan Garg led the “Specialty Dental Support Organizations (DSOs): Value Proposition and Future Growth Potential” panel, discussing the rise of the DSOs and their go-to-market model for higher margin services and market resilience. Karan and CEOs of major specialty DSOs delved further into the trends transforming…

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    MedSpa Market Overview – April 2024 Our Healthcare Services team reviews the latest trends and developments shaping the MedSpa industry in their market overview as the demand for treatments continues to soar in the US. This report covers: Emerging Trends and Sector Developments Industry Metrics Private Equity Activity and More

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  • Industry Q&A – Marc Cooper with Karan Garg

    by CEO  Marc S. Cooper Solomon continues to expand our Healthcare practice. In Q4 of last year, Karan Garg joined us as a Partner and Head of Healthcare Services where he works closely with Jon Hammack who oversees our Healthcare group. This month, I spoke with KG about his transition to Solomon Partners and his…

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