Leslie Henshaw is a Partner on the Healthcare Services team and joined the Firm in 2005. She works with a variety of healthcare services and healthcare information technology companies that are both current and potential investment partners. Before Deerfield, Ms. Henshaw was co-manager of an ING branded healthcare hedge fund she launched in 2000. Prior to that she spent eleven years in the investment banking, high yield research and equity research departments at Furman Selz and ING, where she focused exclusively on companies in the healthcare arena. In these roles Ms. Henshaw developed wide ranging experience in executing M&A transactions, structuring debt and equity financings for both public and private companies and analyzing company potential through the lens of public investors. She also spent two years as a member of the national healthcare consulting practice of Price Waterhouse. Ms. Henshaw graduated with High Honors with a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University, and earned her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Launched in 1994, Deerfield Management Company is an investment firm dedicated to advancing healthcare through information, investment, and philanthropy—all toward the end goal of cures for disease, improved quality of life, and reduced cost of care.
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