Mr. Elahi has over 10 years of investment banking experience, with a focus on merger and acquisition advisory services in the healthcare services industry. Mr. Elahi's advisory experience spans a broad spectrum of sectors including acute care, specialty inpatient, managed care, alternate site providers, diagnostic laboratories and imaging, long-term care, rehabilitation and staffing. Prior to joining Dresner Partners, Mr. Elahi spent four years at Ponder & Co. where he co-established the firm's healthcare services mergers and acquisitions practice. Previous to Ponder, he spent six years as an mergers and acquisitions banker, initially with Citicorp and Salomon Smith Barney in New York, where he focused on the Utilities and Energy industries, and subsequently with ABN AMRO Incorporated in Chicago, where his primary role was transaction management in the healthcare industry. Mr. Elahi has been involved in a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, including the $1.1 billion sale of the 14-hospital Health Midwest system to HCA. |