Mike Elizondo Bio

Mike Elizondo is a Managing Director focused on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising for clients in the payers, payer services and risk-bearing organizations sectors. Mike joined Cain Brothers in 2007 and has over 15 years of experience advising both public and private companies in a variety of merger and acquisition, capital raising, and strategic advisory transactions. Mike’s notable transactions include the sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana to Elevance Health, the acquisition of iCare Health Solutions by VSP Vision Care the sale of Paramount Advantage’s (ProMedica) Ohio Medicaid contract to Elevance Health, the sale of Steward Health Choice Utah to University of Utah Health Insurance Plans, the sale of Steward Health Choice Arizona to BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona, the sale of Trusted Health Plan to CareFirst, the acquisition of Care1st Health Plans by Blue Shield of California and the lead left $1.45 billion financing for Vision Service Plan’s acquisition of Visionworks. Prior to joining Cain Brothers, Mike was at Financial Technology Partners, where he focused on supporting M&A advisory and that company’s business development efforts. Mike graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.