Alvarez & Marsal launched a life sciences business unit. Mark Freitas will lead the division and serve as managing director and life sciences practice leader.
Amar Kapadia joined Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) in its healthcare industry group as a managing director, based in Chicago. Kapadia has more than 20 years of international merger and acquisition, strategy, diligence and operations experience spanning the healthcare and life science industry.
Alvarez & Marsal’s healthcare industry group launched a public health practice. Steven Bussey, a managing director in Alvarez & Marsal’s healthcare industry group, will lead the new practice.
Alvarez & Marsal hired Christopher Smith as managing director and JoyAnn Book and Philip Handal as senior directors to lead the firm’s healthcare industry group’s technology advisory and transformation services.
Alvarez & Marsal appointed John McLean III a managing director in the firm’s healthcare industry group. McLean, who will be based in Atlanta, has two decades of experience transforming health systems.
Alvarez & Marsal’s healthcare industry group expanded its technology advisory and transformation services with the addition of Ian Donner and Avishek Nandi as senior directors in New York.
Alvarez & Marsal appointed Debra Richman a managing director in the firm’s New York-based Healthcare Industry Group.