Citizens Capital Markets & Advisory has served as exclusive financial advisor to Lync Health Partners on its majority recapitalization by United Surgical Partners International. Citizens Capital Markets & Advisory is part of the institutional broker-dealer, Citizens JMP Securities, LLC, a subsidiary of Citizens Financial Group.
Lync Health Partners is an orthopedic ambulatory surgery center with a complementary management services organization and orthopedic walk-in clinic. Lync Health Partners was previously majority-owned by Atlanta, Georgia-based MSouth Equity Partners.
United Surgical Partners International, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare, owns and operates more than 535 ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care, imaging facilities and surgical hospitals across 38 states.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction marks the fourth Outpatient Surgery Center (OSC) transaction of the year. Other acquirers in the space this year include Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers (acquired Dental SurgiCenter of Louisville in January), Penn State Health (acquired Surgery Center of Lancaster in February) and Surgery Partners (acquired Preferred Vascular Group in March). There were 28 OSC acquisitions announced in 2025, and 40 announced in 2024.
