David Sanders

Managing Director, Europe
Healthcare

David joined CG Results Healthcare in 2019, and has 20 years of investment banking experience, having begun his career at ING Barings. David has advised clients across private and public markets on pharma services, healthcare infrastructure, care services, medical technology and cross-border transactions.

For the last 9 years, David has specialised in healthcare M&A, most recently at DC Advisory as an Executive Director and Healthcare lead, where he co-ordinated an international team of healthcare and life sciences specialists. Clients have included public companies (Instem plc, UDG plc, System C Healthcare plc), Private Equity funds (August Equity, Livingbridge, Graphite Capital) and infrastructure funds (Antin Infrastructure Partners, iCON Infrastructure).

David received an MA Hons in History from the University of Edinburgh.

Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be “a patriot to heaven,” and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world… but to feel that the whole world is our country. - Jorge Luis Borges

Latest Insights

Reports
16th February 2023

Pharma Commercialisation Services Update – February 2023

Welcome to our latest update on the outsourced Pharma Commercialisation Services sector. In this report we will be reviewing deal activity across 2022 and taking a look forward to see what 2023 may hold for the sector. We hope that you enjoy this report and look forward to discussing the data and underlying themes with […]

Reports
17th October 2022

MedTech Services – Drivers of growth and consolidation

Welcome to our MedTech Services Report. This sets out our views on the tailwinds driving growth and increased outsourcing, an overview of the MedTech CDMO and CRO market as well as the key drivers of consolidation in the sector. We hope that you enjoy this report and look forward to discussing the data and underlying […]

Reports
27th September 2022

Pharma Commercialisation Services Update – September 2022

Welcome to our latest update on the outsourced Pharma Commercialisation Services sector.  As well as our usual update on M&A activity, this report takes a deep dive into one of the biggest challenges businesses are currently facing – the War for Talent. A phrase first coined by McKinsey in the late ’90s but one that […]

Corporate News
3rd August 2022

We are joining forces with Canaccord Genuity

We are very excited to share that we have agreed to join forces with Canaccord Genuity – a leading full-service investment bank serving growth companies in the middle market.  This is an important milestone in our journey and we wanted to update you on why we’ve taken this decision and what it means for you. […]

Reports
1st February 2022

Pharma Commercialisation Services Update – February 2022

We are pleased to introduce you to the first of our regular sector updates on the outsourced pharma commercialisation sector.  For some time, CG Results Healthcare has been producing sector updates and whitepapers on the two other major areas pharmaceutical companies choose to outsource: manufacturing and research. This report focuses on commercialisation, encompassing Healthcare Marketing, […]

Insights
17th May 2021

The next chapter: Changing market dynamics in commercialisation and medical communications

The last twelve months have been a time of extraordinary activity in the commercialisation sector – the COVID-19 pandemic saw medcomms groups play a crucial part in keeping pharma companies connected with patients and healthcare professionals, and dealmaking was frenetic on both sides of the Atlantic, for smaller agencies as well as for emerging ‘CCOs’. […]

Insights
2nd December 2020

Investment in the care services sector

As a sector for external investment, the UK Care Services market hardly has novelty value – the sector has been shaped for decades by successive waves of capital from private and institutional investors. Equally, while success stories proliferate, there have been several high profile failures, of which the Four Seasons saga is only the most […]

Insights
4th August 2020

Children’s Services Market Review

Children’s Services has been one of the more resilient areas within UK care over the last 2 years, and also one of the most active for M&A. Our recent webinar looked at how businesses in the sector have faced the challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, how conditions might look as the lock-down eases, and […]

Insights
24th July 2020

The outlook for Childen’s Services providers post COVID-19

Children’s Services has been one of the more resilient areas within UK care over the last 2 years, and also one of the most active for M&A. This webinar looks at how businesses in the sector have faced the challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, how conditions might look as the lock-down eases, and the […]