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Autism Services Provider Goes to Golden Gate Capital

Autism Services Provider Goes to Golden Gate Capital

Another private equity firm has thrown its hat in the autism ring. Golden Gate Capital announced its acquisition of Invo Holdings, LLC from The Jordan Company. The Jordan Company and Invo’s management will retain minority ownership stakes in the business. Invo Holdings, based in Jamison, Pennsylvania, provides a range of multi-disciplinary, research-based therapy services to infants, toddlers and school-aged children with various developmental delays, including autism, in homes, at schools and in community-based centers across 27 states. It 2,500 clinicians include board-certified behavior analysts, registered behavioral technicians, speech-language pathologists, occupational and... Read More »
TPG Capital Re-enters the Southeast Asia Hospital Market

TPG Capital Re-enters the Southeast Asia Hospital Market

TPG Capital and its sponsored companies have been on a tear in 2019. Through its recently launched U.S. autism platform, Kadiant, the global private equity firm announced six deals since February. Its U.S.-based digital health company WellSky announced two deals in the past 12 months and back in February, Kindred Healthcare, now co-owned by TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, acquired a hospital in Los Angeles out of the Promise Healthcare bankruptcy. In early September, TPG announced its acquisition of another digital health company, Convey Health Solutions, from New Mountain Capital for an undisclosed price. Two weeks later, the firm was back in the news with a $1.2 billion deal... Read More »
EyeCare Partners Grows Its National Platform

EyeCare Partners Grows Its National Platform

EyeCare Partners’ acquisition marathon shows no signs of slowing down. Ever since FFL Partners formed the group with the acquisition of Clarkson Eyecare in April 2015, EyeCare Partners (ECP) has expanded rapidly, consolidating smaller firms to grow a national network. Last week, the group purchased Nationwide Vision from Refac Optical Group, a portfolio company of Acon Investments. Nationwide is a full-service vision care provider operating 89 optometry offices throughout Arizona and Florida. This acquisition brings EyeCare Partners’ network range to up to 450 locations nationwide. No financial terms were disclosed. Earlier in September, ECP acquired Associated Retinal... Read More »

Convey Health Solutions Sold By PE Firm

After a three-year partnership, New Mountain Capital is selling Convey Health Solutions, Inc. to TPG Capital for an undisclosed amount. According to sources cited by Buyouts.com, New Mountain Capital has been looking for a buyer since last April. The sources also projected Convey Health should generate roughly $50 million EBITDA in 2019, up from $10 million in 2016. The target company provides technology solutions exclusively for government-sponsored health insurance plans such as Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Employer Group Waiver Plans.  The company’s management and other select stakeholders will remain invested in the company. TPG will be getting a robust digital health... Read More »

eHealth Deals Remain Active in August

August proved to be another busy month for eHealth transactions. According to our Deal Search Online database, there were 18 acquisitions in the eHealth sector in July 2019, and 17 in August. The most popular targets this month were cloud-based and data-analytics providers. There were eight digital health transactions with that focus, including Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners’ acquisition of THREAD, a virtual research platform used by biopharma, contract research organizations, not-for-profit researchers and life science organizations to capture global clinical study data for clinical studies. Water Street and JLL will invest to further develop and expand... Read More »
PE Firms Exit North American Dental Group

PE Firms Exit North American Dental Group

Abry Partners and The Riverside Company are selling North American Dental Group (NADG), concluding a four-year investment in the dental service organization (DSO). NADG operates in the United States, and its network includes more than 200 dental practices in 11 states and 23 regional markets. The buyer is Jacobs Holding AG, a global professional investment group that supports the Jacobs Foundation, one of the world’s leading charitable foundations. No financial terms were disclosed. Jacobs Holding is no stranger to the dental market. The company already owns Colosseum Dental Group, a dental care provider, and the addition of NADG will create the first transatlantic dental group. NADG and... Read More »