Kara Murphy
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Kara Murphy is a Senior Partner and co-leader of our Global Healthcare Private Equity team.
Kara has over 20 years of healthcare and investing experience. She advises leading private equity investors and alternative asset managers across the full investment cycle. She has supported hundreds of due diligence assignments across the healthcare value chain. She has worked extensively with PE-backed portfolio companies on their value creation plans. Kara also supports investors on firm ambition, asset class strategy, fund operations, and fundraising.
Kara earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001. She is also a graduate of Tufts University.
Kara Murphy discusses how private equity and corporate investors can evaluate business opportunities and risks that these trends create.
Recent Insights
- “Healthcare Private Equity Market 2025: Resurgence and Record Growth,” Global Healthcare Private Equity Report,enero 08, 2026, Report
- “Playing the Long Game in Pharma Services,” Global Healthcare Private Equity Report,enero 08, 2026, Report
- “What Differentiates Winning Healthcare IT Investments,” Global Healthcare Private Equity Report,enero 08, 2026, Report
- “New Models of Value Creation for Physician Groups,” Global Healthcare Private Equity Report,enero 08, 2026, Report
- “Deal Markets Recalibrate: Healthcare Private Equity 2025 Midyear Update,” Snap Chart, agosto 28, 2025
In the News
- “Global healthcare private equity hits record $190 billion deal value in 2025—Bain & Company ,” Press release, enero 08, 2026
- “Spurred by megadeals, global healthcare private equity deal value soared to $115 billion in 2024, the second-highest total on record,” Press release, enero 09, 2025
- “Healthcare holds its own amid a tepid deal market, reaching $60 billion in announced deal value,” Press release, enero 03, 2024
- “Operaciones de capital privado en sector salud alcanzaron casi US$ 90 mil millones en 2022,” Press release, abril 21, 2023
- “Down but not out: healthcare private equity deals reached nearly $90 billion in 2022, the industry’s second-biggest year on record,” Press release, abril 10, 2023