Investing Warburg Pincus Style

Warburg Pincus' favored health care business models eliminate as much time and risk as possible from the drug discovery and development process. Competition for such investments is increasing, but Warburg reckons its size, and experience, set it apart.

Warburg Pincus is one of the biggest private equity players, with more than $10 billion (€9.7 billion) of funds under management and a further $7 billion available to invest. The group has always had an interest in health care, and, over its 30-year history, has invested more than $3 billion in the sector ($600 million of which was invested in Europe).

Investment activity in health care has heated up over the past three years, explains Nick Lowcock, managing director of the...

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