Our healthcare team is comprised of investment bankers who have recently led dozens of transactions on behalf of a variety of companies, including behavioral health, healthcare IT, pharma, supply chain, and workflow solutions clients.
Berkery Noyes Represents Principle Diagnostics on its Strategic Investment from Aqueous Health
July 2, 2025
Synopsis:
Aqueous Health announced a majority investment in Principle Diagnostics, a leading diagnostic laboratory based in Bethlehem, PA. Principle was founded in 2015 and provides toxicology, molecular and genetic testing services to a broad base of consumers, patients, providers and other laboratories.
Seller:
Principle Diagnostics
Principle Diagnostics laboratory was founded in 2015. Principle provides state-of-the-art toxicology, infectious disease and genetic testing and related services and is licensed in over 40 states.
Buyer:
Aqueous Health
Aqueous Health brings new and innovative diagnostic testing technologies and services to the market. From rapid in-home to specialized in-lab testing, they enable active participation in health & wellness management.
My Favorite Therapists Receives a Strategic Investment from 5th Century Partners
September 5, 2024
Synopsis:
5th Century Partners, a purpose-driven private investment firm that partners with healthcare and business services companies that have outsized growth potential, has made a strategic investment in My Favorite Therapists, a comprehensive and collaborative therapy center for children with autism and developmental delays.
Seller:
My Favorite Therapists
My Favorite Therapists (MFT) provides a range of services based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children on the autism spectrum. Operating in multiple centers across Florida, MFT specializes in early identification and treatment of delays and disorders for children ages 1 to 18 years.
Buyer:
5th Century Partners
5th Century Partners is a purpose-driven private investment firm that invests in middle-market companies within healthcare and business services that have outsized growth potential. The firm provides capital, operating expertise and strategic relationships that lead to sustainable growth.
Atlantic Health acquires Thompson Healthcare & Sports Medicine
March 15, 2023
Synopsis:
Atlantic Health System, one of the leading health care organizations in New Jersey, has acquired Thompson Healthcare & Sports Medicine, a healthcare provider that offers a multidisciplinary approach to treating every patient. Thompson uses a wide variety of techniques and services to ensure they alleviate and eliminate their patient's pain.
Thompson Healthcare & Sports Medicine is a healthcare provider that offers a multidisciplinary approach to treating every patient. Using a wide variety of techniques and services, they work as a team to ensure they alleviate and eliminate their patient's pain and get to the root of their problem.
Buyer:
Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System is one of the leading health care organizations in New Jersey. Atlantic Health System is home to seven award-winning hospitals, including the Morristown Medical Center. The system provides care for the full continuum of health needs across a wide array of settings.
Berkery Noyes Represents Telelanguage in its Acquisition by Propio Language Services
August 4, 2022
Synopsis:
Propio Language Services a technology-enabled interpreting and translation service provider, announced the acquisition of Telelanguage, a Portland-based enterprise language service provider specializing in remote interpreting.
Seller:
Telelanguage
Telelanguage is a Portland-based enterprise language service provider specializing in remote interpreting. Founded in 1991, Telelanguage has a history of providing high-quality remote interpretation services for over 350 languages.
Buyer Parent:
TT Capital Partners
Buyer:
Propio Language Services
Founded in 1998, Propio Language Services is an industry leader in over-the-phone interpretation, video remote interpretation, in-person interpretation, and document translation services.
Berkery Noyes Represents Bluespire in Their Acquisition by GlynnDevins
February 25, 2021
Synopsis:
GlynnDevins, a leader in data- and technology-enabled marketing solutions, has acquired Bluespire, an integrated marketing company with a proprietary scalable services platform. The acquisition adds proven marketing services and technology expertise to GlynnDevins and improves the solutions and value they provide to clients and the broader market.
Seller Parent:
High Road Capital Partners
Seller:
Bluespire Marketing
Bluespire is a performance marketing agency that focuses on the healthcare, senior living, and finance industries. The company's proprietary platform enables clients to stand up digital properties fast, convey their brand message, and execute high-performing awareness and acquisition experiences.
Buyer Parent:
CIP Capital
Buyer:
GlynnDevins
GlynnDevins is the leading data, analytics and marketing technology company. With a diverse portfolio of products and services driven by data science and insights, GlynnDevins has a proven reputation of supporting companies’ sales efforts with lead generation and conversion.
SpendMend Acquires TurnKey Pharmacy Solutions and Elevate340B
August 25, 2020
Synopsis:
SpendMend, the leading provider of solutions to optimize the cost-cycle for the healthcare industry purchased Turnkey Pharmacy Solutions and Elevate340B. SpendMend plans to immediately re-launch the joint end-to-end offering as SpendMend Pharmacy, specializing in compliance, optimization and growth services for 340B programs at hospitals.
Founded in 2012, TurnKey Pharmacy Solutions emerged into the market as a leading provider of 340B audit and compliance services. TurnKey established Elevate340B in 2016 as a consulting solution to help hospitals optimize and grow their 340B programs beyond the initial audit engagement.
Buyer Parent:
Sheridan Capital Partners
Buyer:
SpendMend
SpendMend is the leading provider of solutions to optimize the cost-cycle for the healthcare industry. SpendMend has gathered over 25 years of serving the industry to assist in to identifying the root-cause of financial leakage and provide actionable insights to prevent profit loss.
Berkery Noyes Represents MedTouch in its Acquisition by Perficient
January 6, 2020
Synopsis:
Perficient, Inc., a leading digital transformation consulting firm, has acquired MedTouch LLC, an award-winning digital healthcare marketing and technology consultancy. The acquisition of MedTouch broadens and deepens Perficient’s healthcare consulting capabilities, bringing strategic digital marketing solutions and services focused on the patient.
Seller:
MedTouch, LLC
MedTouch empowers health systems to be on the leading edge of consumer experience by transforming every digital step along the patient journey. MedTouch designs, develops, and measures effective digital marketing programs for health systems to meet each business' goals and marketing challenges.
Buyer:
Perficient, Inc.
Perficient is a leading digital transformation consulting firm. With information technology, management consulting, and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization, and industry solutions.
Golden Gate Capital Acquires Invo Holdings
September 25, 2019
Synopsis:
Golden Gate Capital, a leading private equity investment firm, announced that it has acquired Invo Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of autism and childhood behavioral health services. Invo will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer Anthony Manley and its current management team.
Seller:
Invo Holdings
Invo Holdings, LLC is a leading provider of behavioral health and therapeutic services to individuals with special needs and autism. The company serves more than 60,000 children annually in schools, homes and centers in 30 states nationwide.
Buyer:
Golden Gate Capital
Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with over $15 billion of committed capital. The principals of Golden Gate Capital have a long and successful history of investing across a wide range of industries and transaction types.
Evidera to Acquire Medimix, Expanding Solutions for Real-World Research
May 30, 2019
Synopsis:
Evidera, a business unit of PPD, LLC, and a provider of evidence-based solutions demonstrating the real-world effectiveness and safety of health care products, will acquire Medimix International, a global technology company providing real-world evidence (RWE) insights and information to the pharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical device industries.
Seller:
Medimix International
Medimix International specializes in providing business understanding, real-world evidence insights to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Medimix’s primary solution, LiveTracker™, is a cloud-based platform that provides real-time monitoring of clients’ particular therapeutic markets.
Buyer Parent:
Carlyle Group
Buyer:
Evidera
Evidera, a PPD business unit, is a leading provider of evidence-based solutions to demonstrate the real-world effectiveness, safety and value of health care products. They help biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies generate the evidence needed to optimize the market access.
Gryphon Investors Announces Majority Investment in LEARN Behavioral
March 19, 2019
Synopsis:
Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, announced that it has acquired a majority stake in LEARN Behavioral from LLR Partners. LEARN is the leading network of providers serving children with autism and other special needs.
Seller Parent:
LLR Partners
Seller:
LEARN Behavioral
LEARN Behavioral is the leading network of behavioral health providers serving children with autism and other special needs. LEARN delivers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and related interventions based on industry-leading quality standards.
Buyer:
Gryphon Investors
Based in San Francisco, Gryphon Investors is a leading private equity firm focused on profitably growing and competitively enhancing middle-market companies in partnership with experienced management teams.
Trinity Partners to Acquire TGaS Advisors
September 6, 2018
Synopsis:
Global life sciences consulting firm Trinity Partners announced it has acquired TGaS® Advisors, the leading benchmarking and advisory services firm for commercial organizations in the life sciences industry. TGaS provides robust comparative intelligence and collaborative network membership services.
Seller:
TGaS Advisors, LLC
TGaS Advisors is the leading benchmarking and advisory services firm for commercial organizations in the life sciences industry. TGaS provides robust comparative intelligence and collaborative network membership services.
Buyer Parent:
Parthenon Capital Partners
Buyer:
Trinity Partners
Trinity Partners provides state-of-the art approaches and solutions to the health care industry. They believe that accurate market assessments result from intensive data analysis and fact gathering. They believe that precise, targeted sales information gives clients a vital competitive edge.
iContracts Acquires PolicyMedical
July 6, 2018
Synopsis:
iContracts, a leading provider of cloud-based contract, compliance, and revenue management solutions announced that it has acquired Toronto, Canada based PolicyMedical, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based policy lifecycle management solutions.
Seller:
PolicyMedical
Toronto, Canada based PolicyMedical is an industry-leading provider of cloud-based policy lifecycle management solutions. Their comprehensive SaaS-based solutions enable healthcare organizations to centralize and standardize the administration of policies and procedures.
Buyer:
iContracts, Inc
iContracts is a leading cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of contract management and compliance solutions for healthcare, education and industrial customers.
Berkery Noyes Advises CARD in its Sale to Blackstone
June 21, 2018
Synopsis:
Blackstone announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone have agreed to acquire the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, LLC, a leading provider of autism behavioral health services for children and adults affected by autism spectrum disorder.
The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), Inc., is among the world's largest and most experienced organizations effectively treating individuals with autism spectrum disorder using the principles and procedures of applied behavior analysis.
Buyer:
Blackstone Group LP
Blackstone is one of the world's leading investment firms. Their asset management businesses, with over $430 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds.
Berkery Noyes Advises Collect Rx
June 20, 2018
Synopsis:
New Capital Partners (NCP), a private equity firm, announces that is has acquired Collect Rx, a leading revenue cycle management (RCM) company. The company leverages its Business Intelligence (BI) engine to analyze claims and increase reimbursement for healthcare providers.
Seller:
Collect Rx, Inc.
Collect Rx is a niche RCM (revenue cycle management) provider headquartered in Bethesda, Md. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on providing their services to surgery centers, hospitals, physician-owned practices, laboratory diagnostic facilities and behavioral health centers.
Buyer:
New Capital Partners
New Capital Partners (NCP) is a private equity firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. NCP makes investments in niche, tech-enabled services companies in the healthcare, financial and business services industries.
Renovus Capital Partners Acquires Continuing Education Alliance and Practicing Clinicians Exchange
January 8, 2018
Synopsis:
Renovus Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the education, training and human capital sectors, has acquired a controlling interest in Continuing Education Alliance, LLC and Practicing Clinicians Exchange (PCE). Based in Stamford, CT, PCE is the national leader in education for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Seller:
Practicing Clinicians Exchange
Practicing Clinicians Exchange (PCE) is an innovative multichannel CME (Continuing Medical Education) company specifically focused on nurse practitioners and physician assistants. PCE provides live, home study, and online CME designed to meet the real-world clinical needs of NPs and PAs.
Buyer:
Renovus Capital
Founded in 2010, Renovus Capital Partners is an education, training and human capital focused private equity firm. Renovus is based outside of Philadelphia and manages $485 million in assets under management through two SBIC funds.
Berkery Noyes Advises Autism Learning Partners in its Acquisition by FFL Partners
December 21, 2017
Synopsis:
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in quality middle-market companies in growing markets, has completed the acquisition of Autism Learning Partners (ALP), a provider of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) therapy services for children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.
Seller:
Autism Learning Partners
Autism Learning Partners, of Glendale, Calif., provides Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy for children and young adults in seven states, serving nearly 3,000 clients annually. Services include cognitive, adaptive, social and emotional therapies as well as social-skills programs.
Buyer:
FFL Partners, LLC
FFL is a venture capital and private equity firm that was formed in 1997 to invest in middle-market companies where the substantial strategic and operating expertise of FFL's principals can help management improve margins, make acquisitions and grow earnings.
Berkery Noyes Advises PatientSafe Solutions in its Majority Recapitalization by HighBar Partners
September 25, 2017
Synopsis:
PatientSafe Solutions (PatientSafe), a leader in mobile clinical workflow and communication solutions, has closed a round of financing led by HighBar Partners with participation from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Camden Partners, Psilos Group, and TPG.
Seller:
PatientSafe Solutions
PatientSafe Solutions, Inc., is a San Diego-based provider of software and hardware products, including handheld devices for nurses, bar-coded patient wrist bands and bed side patient portals that interface with hospital information systems to provide patient safety and increase clinical quality.
Buyer:
HighBAR Partners
Buyer Parent:
Merck & Co., Inc.
Buyer:
Psilos Group
Buyer:
TPG Capital
HighBar Partners is a private investment firm focused on strategic growth capital investments in enterprise and infrastructure software companies. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Camden Partners, Psilos Group, and TPG are investment companies.
Berkery Noyes Represents Amazing Charts in its Sale to Harris Computer
September 6, 2017
Synopsis:
Constellation Software Inc. announced its wholly-owned division N. Harris Computer Corporation has acquired Amazing Charts, LLC, a business providing Electronic Medical Record (EHR), Practice Management (PM) software and Medical Billing services to primary care and specialty outpatient practices.
Seller Parent:
Diversified Communications
Seller:
Amazing Charts
Amazing Charts provides Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR), Practice Management, and other Health IT solutions to healthcare practices. Based on number one user ratings for usability, fair pricing, and overall satisfaction, Amazing Charts EHR has been adopted by more than 11,000 clinicians.
Buyer Parent:
Constellation Software, Inc.
Since 1976, Harris has focused on providing feature-rich and robust turnkey solutions to Public Sector, Schools, Utility, and Health Care agencies. Harris’ focus is on creating long-term relationships with its customers and ensuring that it meets the changing needs of its customers over time.
Berkery Noyes Advises Verisys’ Shareholders on the Company’s Growth Investment from Spectrum Equity and Cressey & Company
March 15, 2017
Synopsis:
Verisys Corporation, a leading provider of technology solutions and primary-source data on healthcare professionals and businesses, announced that Spectrum Equity, along with Cressey & Company and Verisys CEO John P. Benson, have made a significant growth equity investment in the Company.
Seller:
Verisys Corporation
Verisys is the leading provider of health care credentialing services with the most current, accurate, and comprehensive data and technology tools. Since 1992, Verisys has been leading the health care industry by providing the highest quality data coupled with deep health care industry experience.
Buyer:
Spectrum Equity
Buyer:
Cressey & Co.
Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support to innovative Internet, software and information services companies. Cressey & Company LP is a private investment firm focused exclusively on investing in and building leading healthcare businesses.
Berkery Noyes Advises Core Informatics in its Acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific
March 6, 2017
Synopsis:
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has acquired Core Informatics, which provides a cloud-based platform supporting scientific data management. Core’s offerings will enhance Thermo Fisher’s existing informatics solutions and complement its cloud platform, which supports the company’s genetic analysis, qPCR and proteomics systems.
Seller:
Core Informatics LLC
Core Informatics partners with customers in biopharma, genomics, and other industries to deliver lab informatics solutions to derive more value and insight from scientific data. Core Informatics provides the scalable Platform for Science that enables customers to build workflows for specific needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support. They help customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.
Career Step Acquires Panacea Healthcare Solution’s Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions
February 6, 2017
Synopsis:
Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and professional training, has acquired the Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions of Panacea Healthcare Solutions. Panacea Healthcare Solutions provides expert coding, compliance, technology and financial advice to hundreds of healthcare providers each year.
Panacea Healthcare Solutions provides expert coding, compliance, financial consulting and information technology to hundreds of healthcare providers and organizations each year to proactively maintain compliance and identify risk and new incremental net revenue opportunities.
Buyer Parent:
Revelstoke Capital Partners LLC
Buyer:
Career Step
Career Step is an online provider of career-focused education and corporate training. Career Step provides training for the largest and most respected healthcare employers in the nation and is committed to helping students and practicing professionals gain the skills they need to be successful.
Renovus Capital Partners Invests in Red Nucleus, the Premier Provider of Learning Solutions for the Life Sciences Industry
October 28, 2016
Synopsis:
Renovus Capital Partners announced an investment in Red Nucleus Solutions LLC. Red Nucleus is a life sciences learning solutions company headquartered in Yardley, PA. Red Nucleus designs and produces a suite of learning elements which include, e-learning modules, mobile applications, virtual preceptorships and more.
Seller:
Red Nucleus Solutions LLC
Red Nucleus is a leading full-service design and development provider of learning solutions for the life sciences industry. Red Nucleus designs and produces a suite of learning elements which include, e-learning modules, mobile applications, virtual preceptorships, print modules and job aids.
Buyer:
Renovus Capital
Renovus Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing capital and strategic assistance to small and mid-sized education companies. Its team has a combined 41 years of experience investing in education and has helped more than 20 education companies grow and succeed.
Vocera Acquires Extension Healthcare
October 27, 2016
Synopsis:
Vocera Communications, Inc., the leading healthcare communications company, announced that it has acquired Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. Extension Healthcare is a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment.
Seller:
Extension Healthcare
Extension Healthcare’s Engage™ “one platform” approach improves clinical communication, collaboration, care coordination, and workflow with a specific focus on reducing unnecessary clinical interruptions and improving response to critical patient events.
Buyer:
Vocera Communications, Inc.
Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. Vocera delivers secure, integrated and intelligent communication solutions that enable care teams to collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information.
Veronis Suhler Stevenson “VSS” Invests in Connexion Point, LLC
October 18, 2016
Synopsis:
VSS, a private investment firm focused on the information, tech-enabled business services, healthcare IT, and education industries, announced its investment in Connexion Point, LLC. Connexion Point is a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare services, specializing in communication lifecycle services for the healthcare industry.
Seller:
Connexion Point
Connexion Point is a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare services, specializing in communication lifecycle services for the healthcare industry. Connexion Point facilitates communication, throughout the lifecycle of the consumer, that connects the healthcare industry to their consumer.
Buyer:
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) is a leading private investment firm that invests in the information, business services, healthcare IT, education, media and marketing services industries in North America and Europe.
Berkery Noyes Advises Learn It Systems in its Acquisition by LLR Partners
May 13, 2016
Synopsis:
Learn It Systems, a portfolio company of Milestone Partners, has been acquired by LLR Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Learn It Systems, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is a leading national behavioral health and related services company serving children with autism and other special needs.
Seller Parent:
Milestone Partners
Seller:
Learn It Systems
Learn It Systems is a leading national behavioral health and related services company serving children with autism and other special needs. Learn It's comprehensive behavioral health platform addresses large, high-growth markets being driven by insurance reform, an evolving reimbursement landscape.
Buyer:
LLR Partners
LLR Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm providing capital and strategic guidance to growth companies. They invest in a broad range of industries, with an emphasis on software, tech-enabled services and healthcare.
Medstreaming Announces Acquisition of Registry Software Vendor M2S
March 29, 2016
Synopsis:
Medstreaming, a leading provider of innovative healthcare cardiovascular and radiology workflow software solutions, announced the acquisition of M2S, a leading provider of registry software technology designed for healthcare quality improvement.
Seller Parent:
Altaris Capital Partners
Seller:
M2S
M2S, Inc. provides medical image, data management, and and outcomes analysis services for the improvement of patient outcomes. It offers image management solutions to allow customers to collect, view, and manage imaging data.
Buyer:
MedStreaming, LLC
Medstreaming is a provider of innovative healthcare cardiovascular and radiology workflow software solutions. Since 2006, Medstreaming has become a leader in delivering specialty-based workflow applications that function as a “best of breed” application for over 20 different clinical specialties.
Wafra Partners LLC Acquires Interactivation Health Networks, LLC, d/b/a The Wellness Network
January 22, 2016
Synopsis:
The Wellness Network has been sold to an entity formed by the clients of Wafra Partners LLC, a private equity firm that seeks to invest in and build successful middle-market companies. The Wellness Network owns and operates the largest and most comprehensive in-hospital health TV networks in the US.
Seller Parent:
Interactivation
Seller:
The Wellness Network
The Wellness Network owns The Patient Channel, The Newborn Channel, and HealthStyle Press, the most comprehensive in-hospital TV networks. Delivered directly to patient rooms and waiting areas, the Channels provide viewers with original, award-winning health programs.
Buyer:
Wafra Partners
Wafra Partners is a private equity firm that seeks to invest in and build successful middle-market companies. Wafra Partners purchases control or significant minority positions in companies with strong management, high-upside, discernable value and growth drivers.
HMP Communications Holdings, LLC Announces Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC as Majority Equity Holder
December 16, 2015
Synopsis:
HMP Communications Holdings, LLC (HMP), has completed an agreement with Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE), under which current investors, Alta Communications and Antares Capital, have sold their interests in HMP to SGE. With the sale, SGE becomes HMP’s majority equity holder. HMP is a leading provider of healthcare content and events.
Seller:
HMP Communications Holdings, LLC
HMP Communications Holdings is a multi-channel leader in healthcare content and education, with a mission to improve patent care. The company produces clinically relevant, evidence-based journals, events and accredited, continuing education for the healthcare community.
Buyer Parent:
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC (SGE) invests in growth stage companies in the information services, internet and software sectors. The firm is backed by a unique and patient capital base that allows management teams the freedom and flexibility to maximize growth.
Aptean Enters Healthcare Industry With Acquisition of Medworxx Solutions, Inc.
October 15, 2015
Synopsis:
Aptean, Inc., a leading provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions, announced the completion of its acquisition of Medworxx Solutions Inc., a leader in clinical patient flow, and compliance and education solutions.
Seller:
MedWorxx, Inc.
Medworxx helps hospitals meet patient flow challenges and requirements for compliance and education. Medworxx Clinical Criteria, the flagship component of Medworxx Patient Flow, is currently used to manage 32% of the acute-care beds in Canada as well as acute-care beds in the United States.
Buyer Parent:
Vista Equity Partners
Buyer:
Aptean
Aptean is a provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. They build and acquire solutions to support the evolving operational needs of their customers. Their solutions help nearly 5,000 organizations by satisfying their customers and continuing to operate efficiently.
Ebix Enters the Health Continuing Education and Wellness Markets by Acquiring Birmingham-Based Oakstone Publishing, LLC
December 2, 2014
Synopsis:
Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, announced that it has acquired Alabama-based Oakstone Publishing, LLC, a leading provider of continuing education, certification materials for physicians, dentists and allied healthcare professionals.
Seller Parent:
BV Investment Partners
Seller:
Oakstone Publishing
Oakstone Publishing, LLC, an innovative learning company, excels at providing nonbiased, multimedia continuing education and certification materials for physicians, dentists and allied healthcare professionals.
Buyer:
Ebix, Inc.
Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry. It provides solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges and risk compliance solutions to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry.
Truven Health Analytics Completes Acquisition of Heartbeat Experts
November 6, 2014
Synopsis:
Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of healthcare analytics and data solutions and services, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Heartbeat Experts, the global leader in stakeholder management solutions for the life sciences industry.
Seller:
Heartbeat Experts
Heartbeat Experts combines strategic consulting, enterprise software, data, analytics and market research to provide solutions that help Life Sciences and Financial Services firms drastically improve the success of their products.
Buyer Parent:
Veritas Capital Partners
Buyer:
Truven Health Analytics
Truven Health Analytics is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and data solutions and services across the entire healthcare industry. They are dedicated to delivering the answers their clients need to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs.
Berkery Noyes Represents Amirsys in its Sale to Elsevier
June 19, 2014
Synopsis:
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the acquisition of Amirsys, a leading provider of innovative healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy.
Seller:
Amirsys, Inc.
Amirsys, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy. Amirsys delivers medical expertise with powerful technology to provide life-saving, vital information to healthcare professionals.
Buyer Parent:
Reed Elsevier
Buyer:
Elsevier B.V.
Elsevier is a provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress.
Equian Acquires AfterMath Claim ScienceEnhancing Payment Integrity Data
June 16, 2014
Synopsis:
Equian completed the acquisition of AfterMath Claim Science, Inc. effective June 16, 2014. Based just outside of Chicago, IL, AfterMath Claim Science is a post-payment recovery services company that identifies and eliminates medical claim payment errors.
Seller:
AfterMath Claim Science, Inc.
AfterMath Claim Science is a specialized overpayment recovery company, with data mining techniques aimed at specific claim types not detected by traditional claims overpayment services. Its Member Eligibility Overpayment (MEO) recovery program is the highest performing recovery program of its kind.
Buyer Parent:
Great Point Partners
Buyer:
Health Systems International
Equian is a healthcare information services company focused on lowering the cost of care by eliminating waste. It provides pre-payment solutions, post-payment solutions, and data analytics methodology.
Informa Healthcare Has Acquired Elsevier Business Intelligence
November 7, 2013
Synopsis:
Informa plc has acquired Elsevier Business Intelligence. Elsevier Business Intelligence was cobbled together from previous Elsevier acquisitions—F-D-C Reports, Inc. in 1994 and Windhover Information, Inc. in 2008. It publishes some of the most prestigious newsletters for the healthcare industry.
Seller Parent:
Reed Elsevier
Seller:
Elsevier Business Intelligence
Elsevier Business Intelligence, a global leader in the field of healthcare industry information, provides business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry. It provides publications, conferences, databases and reports.
Buyer Parent:
Informa plc
Buyer:
Informa Healthcare
Informa Healthcare is a medical and scientific publisher whose goal is to connect librarians, scientists, professionals and other medical practicioners with information they can trust and see through a comprehensive portfolio of journals, print and online books, encyclopedias and directories.
Berkery Noyes Represents HCPro in the Sale of HCPro and HealthLeaders Media Brands to BLR
November 5, 2013
Synopsis:
BLR®—Business & Legal Resources—announced the acquisition of the HCPro and HealthLeaders Media brands and certain assets. HCPro is a leading provider of integrated information, education and training in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance.
Seller Parent:
Halyard Capital
Seller:
HCPro, Inc.
HCPro is a provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. HealthLeaders Media is a media company dedicated to meeting the business information needs of healthcare professionals.
Buyer:
BLR
BLR is the leading provider of employment, safety, and environmental compliance solutions. Its award-winning information products—including training programs, events, web portals, reports and subscription services—give businesses of all sizes and industries the best tools available.
AHC Media Acquired by Local Executives and Lone Peak Capital Group
August 2, 2013
Synopsis:
Atlanta-based AHC Media has been acquired by local industry executives and Lone Peak Capital Group. AHC's up-to-date publications assist a range of professionals in the fields of clinical medicine and health care management. AHC Media is also the most trusted source for continuing education in the healthcare industry.
Seller Parent:
Thompson Media Group LLC
Seller:
AHC Media
AHC Media is the largest publisher of health care newsletters in the world. AHC Media's incisive, useful, up-to-date publications are read by more than 50,000 people per month in the fields of clinical medicine, health care management, and biotechnology and medical devices.
Buyer:
Lone Peak Capital
Lone Peak Capital Group LLC is a private investments firm that provides corporate financial solutions and makes associated strategic investments on behalf of its principals and/or its clients. Lone Peak was organized by principals of Riverside Advisors, LLC a premier global hedge fund firm.
The Intellectual Property & Science Division of Thomson Reuters Acquires BioWorld
July 8, 2013
Synopsis:
BioWorld and its companion publication Medical Device Daily (MDD) have been acquired by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. BioWorld covers news on public companies and hard-to-find information on private companies.
Seller Parent:
Thompson Media Group LLC
Seller:
BioWorld
BioWorld covers news on public companies and hard-to-find information on private companies. This news coverage of the biotechnology industry is 100 percent original and available only at BioWorld.
Buyer:
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. It combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers.
Berkery Noyes Represents Cengage Learning In The Sale Of NetLearning To HealthcareSource
December 4, 2012
Synopsis:
HealthcareSource® announced that it has acquired NetLearning, a leading provider of learning management software and content for the healthcare industry. The combination of HealthcareSource and NetLearning results in the first company to provide a complete, end-to-end talent management solution designed specifically for healthcare.
Seller Parent:
Apax Partners
Seller:
NetLearning, Inc.
NetLearning is an e-learning solutions provider developing products specifically for the healthcare industry since 1995. The NetLearning product suite allows for the deployment, management, and reporting of training-related activities.
Buyer Parent:
Insight Venture Partners
Buyer:
HealthCare Source
HealthcareSource is the leading provider of talent management software for the healthcare industry. HealthcareSource helps healthcare organizations source, hire, assess, develop and retain the best workforce possible in order to reduce costs and to improve patient satisfaction and safety.
Berkery Noyes Represents Exitcare In Its Sale To Elsevier
September 11, 2012
Synopsis:
Elsevier CDS announced the acquisition of ExitCare, LLC, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education and discharge instructions. ExitCare provides peer-reviewed patient education and discharge instructions to support clinicians, empower patients and help providers meet their patients' educational needs.
Seller:
ExitCare LLC
ExitCare, LLC is the most integrated, enterprise-wide provider of print, video and interactive solutions for patient education and currently serves over 2,000 healthcare organizations across the United States.
Buyer Parent:
Reed Elsevier
Buyer:
Elsevier CDS
Elsevier CDS delivers actionable clinical content, care planning and documentation, drug reference and decision support, learning and performance management, and data mining and outcomes analytics solutions for provider, pharmacy and payer organizations.
US Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress Acquired by NACCME
April 3, 2012
Synopsis:
North American Center for Continuing Medical Education announced that it has acquired CME LLC, which operates the US Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress. More than 2,000 physicians, nurses, and others earn as many as 30 credits toward their CME requirements each year at the US Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress.
Seller Parent:
United Business Media Limited
Seller:
CME LLC
CME LLC provides innovative, evidence-based, clinically relevant accredited continuing medical education in a collaborative fashion for the health care community. It operates the U.S. Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress--one of the largest annual psychiatric CME meetings in the United States.
Buyer Parent:
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Buyer:
NACCME, LLC
NACCME is a wholly owned subsidiary of HMP Communications Holdings, LLC and an industry leader in continuing medical education. It provides the highest quality CME/CE across medical disciplines and therapeutic areas.
Berkery Noyes Represents Healthx In Its Majority Recapitalization By Frontier Capital
January 5, 2012
Synopsis:
Frontier Capital is pleased to announce that it has partnered with existing management to complete a majority recapitalization of Healthx, Inc., a leading provider of online healthcare portals to health insurers, medical providers, and employers.
Seller Parent:
Liberty Partners
Seller:
Healthx, Inc.
Healthx develops and manages the most widely adopted portals and applications for the healthcare and human resources markets. Healthx was formed to meet the unique communication needs of the healthcare industry by helping payers and employers deliver benefits faster and at a lower cost.
Buyer:
Frontier Capital
Frontier Capital is a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on technology enabled business services. Frontier partners with management teams that can benefit from capital to accelerate growth, fund acquisitions, or generate shareholder liquidity.
Berkery Noyes Represents Strata Decision Technology In Its Sale To Veronis Suhler Stevenson
July 21, 2011
Synopsis:
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a leading global private investment firm, announced that an affiliate has acquired financial software company Strata Decision Technology, LLC (SDT). Strata Decision Technology develops, markets and implements web-based financial analytics and performance management software tools.
Seller:
Strata Decision Technology
Strata Decision Technology is a pioneer in the development of innovative software tools for financial and business analytics in the U.S. healthcare industry. Strata Decision Technology is a trusted technology partner to leading hospitals, academic medical centers, and healthcare systems.
Buyer:
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, founded in 1981, is a leading private equity firm that makes buyout and mezzanine investments in the information, education and media industries in North America and Europe.
Access Intelligence Has Acquired OR Manager
January 10, 2011
Synopsis:
Access Intelligence LLC and its Dorland Health division has announced the acquisition of OR Manager, Inc., the premier media brand and annual educational conference and trade show for operating room executives, managers and hospital directors. Founded in 1985, OR Manager has been the leader in providing information on management of the OR.
Seller:
OR Manager, Inc.
Founded in 1985 by Ellie Schrader and Pat Patterson, OR Manager, Inc. has been the leader in providing information on management of the OR. OR Manager is a media brand and events company serving operating room executives, managers and doctors.
Buyer Parent:
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Buyer:
Access Intelligence, LLC
Access Intelligence, a portfolio company of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, is a b-to-b media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving the energy, chemical, defense, aerospace, healthcare and communications markets.
Medpage Today LLC Sold to Everyday Health, Inc.
December 15, 2010
Synopsis:
Everyday Health, Inc., a leading provider of online health solutions, announced that it has acquired MedPage Today, LLC, a news organization serving healthcare professionals. The acquisition immediately provides Everyday Health with a significant offering for healthcare professionals.
Seller Parent:
Milestone Venture Partners
Seller:
MedPage Today Inc.
MedPage Today is a news organization serving healthcare professionals. The company's daily, peer-reviewed news coverage delivered via the web and several mobile applications allows healthcare professionals to put breaking medical news into practice.
Buyer:
Everyday Health, Inc.
Everyday Health is a leading provider of health solutions. The company provides consumers, healthcare professionals, and brands with content and advertising-based services across a broad portfolio of over 25 websites that span the health spectrum.
Image Solutions Inc. Sold to CSC
December 6, 2010
Synopsis:
Computer Sciences Corporation announced it has closed the acquisition of Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a privately-held, global leader in regulatory submission management solutions and related implementation and outsourcing services for the Life Sciences sector.
Seller:
Image Solutions, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Image Solutions, Inc. is a proven market leader in providing submissions solutions, process services and consulting to Life Sciences companies as a way to improve clinical and regulatory processes that bring new medicines to market.
Computer Sciences Corporation is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector.
CompareNetworks Acquires International Scientific Communications
October 6, 2010
Synopsis:
CompareNetworks, Inc., a leading provider of online b-to-b marketplaces for the scientific and healthcare industries, acquired the titles of American Laboratory and American Biotechnology Laboratory from International Scientific Communications (ISC), Shelton, CT.
International Scientific Communications, Inc. publishes journals, editorial tabloids, and technical articles on analytical chemistry and life sciences for the chemists and life scientists. Its publications provide news and information in the biotechnology, drug discovery, and many others.
Buyer Parent:
Alta Communications
Buyer:
CompareNetworks, Inc.
CompareNetworks operates targeted, online, b-to-b marketplaces for professionals worldwide. CompareNetworks integrates online marketplaces, email newsletters, video, whitepapers and editorial content to bring buyers and sellers together.
Berkery Noyes Represents Ascend Media Holdings In Its Sale Of Event Media Division
September 1, 2009
Synopsis:
TGP Investments, LLC, the manager of private equity investment fund, TGP Capital Partners LLC, is pleased to announce that the fund has acquired the Event and Custom Media Division of Ascend Media. The transaction was completed in partnership with Cameron Bishop who will also serve as the company’s CEO.
Seller:
Ascend Media, Inc.
Ascend Media is positioned as a leader in the business-to-business media environment - with a unique focus on medical, healthcare and business services industries.
Buyer:
TGP Capital Partners, LLC
Kansas City-based TGP Capital Partners, LLC is a $56.5 million private equity investment fund formed to make investments in well-managed, profitable and growing middle-market companies.
Oracle Buys Relsys
March 23, 2009
Synopsis:
Oracle Corporation has completed the acquisition of Relsys International, Inc. The combination of Oracle and Relsys is expected to deliver the only suite of software applications that supports end-to-end drug safety processes across clinical development, post-market surveillance and patient care.
Seller:
Relsys International, Inc.
Relsys International is the leading global provider of drug safety and pharmacovigilance solutions that help pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies ensure regulatory compliance, streamline operations, and improve product safety.
Buyer:
Oracle Corporation
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. The company is a leading provider of systems software, including database management, application development, and application server software.
Berkery Noyes Represents Salem Press, Inc. In Its Sale Agreement With EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
January 26, 2009
Synopsis:
EBSCO has signed an agreement to purchase Salem Press, a 60-year-old publisher of health, literature, and history reference books and databases known for its success in selling databases both in print and online as a package.
Seller:
Salem Press Inc.
Since 1949, Salem Press has been the publisher of reference works on literature, history and biography, the social sciences and the sciences suitable for adult and young adult readers spanning all educational venues. Reference materials are both printed and electronic.
Buyer Parent:
EBSCO Industries, Inc.
Buyer:
EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers: Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government.
Wolters Kluwer Completes Its Acquisition of UpToDate
October 22, 2008
Synopsis:
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, announced that it has acquired UpToDate, the leading evidence-based electronic clinical information resource.
Seller:
UpToDate
UpToDate specializes in physician-driven products designed to improve healthcare at the point of care and integrate smoothly into Electronic Medical Records. UpToDate collaborates with physicians, who create recommendations on how to diagnose and treat thousands of conditions.
Buyer Parent:
Wolters Kluwer NV
Buyer:
Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks.
Berkery Noyes Represents Harris Connect, Inc. In Its Sale Agreement With The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C.
August 12, 2008
Synopsis:
Wicks Communications & Media Partners III, L.P. a New York-based private equity fund, announced that its portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of assets of Harris Connect, Inc., the market leader in alumni and member affinity solutions.
Seller:
Harris Connect, Inc.
Harris Connect publishes over 600 alumni and membership directories annually, provides Internet services to more than 1,000 leading educational institutions and membership organizations and delivers best-in-class research and modeling solutions to over 1,000 clients.
The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C. is a New York based private equity firm that invests in selected segments of the communications, information and media industries.
Berkery Noyes Represents Princeton Media Associates In Its Sale to HMP Communications/Alta Communication
April 29, 2008
Synopsis:
Berkery Noyes announced today that the firm represented Princeton Media Associates in its sale to HMP Communications, a portfolio company of Alta Communications. The management team will continue to have an investment in the new combined entity.
Seller:
Princeton Media Associates, LLC
Princeton Media Associates produces live, print, and web- based certified continuing medical and pharmacy education and informational services for healthcare professionals. PrincetonCME, offers CME/CE activities in a variety of formats, including teleconferences, symposia, monographs, and webcasts.
Buyer Parent:
Alta Communications
Buyer:
HMP Communications, LLC
HMP Communications is a medical information provider dedicated to ensuring the availability and affordability of excellence in healthcare education. Our readers and customers range from physicians/clinicians recognized for their expertise to influential industry leaders.
Berkery Noyes Represented The Riverside Company on the Sale of HCPro Holdings, Inc. to Halyard Capital, LLC.
February 13, 2008
Synopsis:
Berkery Noyes announced that the firm represented The Riverside Company on the sale of its portfolio company HCPro Holdings, Inc. to Halyard Capital. The management team will continue to have an investment in the new entity. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Seller Parent:
The Riverside Company
Seller:
HCPro, Inc.
HCPro is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry.
Buyer:
Halyard Capital
Halyard is a private equity fund with $350 million of capital under management focused on investing in media, communications and business services companies. The Fund specializes in middle-market leveraged buyouts, growth equity and structured equity investments.
Berkery Noyes Represented The Thomson Corporation In The Sale Of Centerwatch And New England Institutional Review Board To Jobson Medical Information
January 4, 2008
Synopsis:
The Thomson Corporation announced the sale of CenterWatch to Jobson Medical Information, a portfolio company of The Wicks Group, LLC. CenterWatch is a trusted source and global leader in providing proprietary data and information about clinical trials to both professionals and patients.
Seller Parent:
Thomson Corporation
Seller:
CenterWatch, Inc.
CenterWatch is a trusted source and global leader in providing proprietary data and information about clinical trials to both professionals and patients.
Buyer Parent:
The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C.
Jobson Medical Information is a leading specialty healthcare communications, publishing, and medical education company. Jobson Medical Information produces a broad range of publications, educational programs, enduring educational materials, live events, symposia and websites.
Berkery Noyes Represents Arlington Medical Resources (AMR) In Its Acquisition By Decision Resources, Inc.
December 19, 2007
Synopsis:
Berkery Noyes, the leading independent investment bank serving the media, information and technology markets, announces that it represented Arlington Medical Resources, Inc. in its sale to Decision Resources, Inc., a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Seller:
Arlington Medical Resources Inc.
AMR is a privately held pharmaceutical market research firm headquartered in suburban Philadelphia. We have been serving the market research needs of the pharmaceutical & diagnostic imaging industries since 1988.
Buyer Parent:
Providence Equity Partners Inc.
Buyer:
Decision Resources, Inc.
Decision Resources, Inc. is a world leader in research publications, advisory services and consulting designed to help clients shape strategy, allocate resources and master their chosen markets. Decision Resources consists of the medical technology business unit and the biopharma business unit.
Berkery Noyes Represented BG Media Investors On The Sale Of HMP Communications To Alta Communications, Mackler And Fisher
August 21, 2007
Synopsis:
Berkery Noyes announced today that the firm represented BG Media Investors on the sale of its portfolio company HMP Communications to Paul Mackler, Ken Fisher, and Alta Communications. Terms of the transaction, were not disclosed.
Seller Parent:
BG Media Investors LP
Seller:
HMP Communications, LLC
HMP Communications is a medical information provider dedicated to ensuring the availability and affordability of excellence in healthcare education. Our readers and customers range from physicians/clinicians recognized for their expertise to influential industry leaders.
Buyer:
Alta Communications
Alta Communications is a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in equity investments in media and communications companies. Alta Communications has a very successful track record and is extremely active, having invested in over 100 media and telecommunications companies.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Complete Healthcare Communications, Inc. in its sale to MediMedia USA
April 5, 2007
Synopsis:
MediMedia USA announced the acquisition of a majority interest in Complete Healthcare Communications, Inc., a leading strategic medical communications agency that specializes in strategic publication planning. CHC will join the Professional Division of MediMedia USA.
Complete Healthcare Communications is a strategic medical communications agency that specializes in publication planning. Our commitment to all of our clients is to deliver the highest product quality coupled with exceptional service, resulting in scientific integrity with commercial impact.
Buyer Parent:
Vestar Capital Partners
Buyer:
MediMedia USA
MediMedia’s products and services include integrated and comprehensive health management programs, patient education content, and applications purchased by healthcare stakeholders: physicians, patients, employers, hospitals, health plans and pharmaceutical companies.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Lawrence Erlbaum in its sale to Informa
October 11, 2006
Synopsis:
Informa plc, the leading global information specialists, announces that its Academic & Scientific division has agreed to acquire, subject to the receipt of regulatory clearances, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers of New Jersey. LEA will become part of Informa's Taylor & Francis academic publishing business.
Founded in 1973 as a small publishing house concentrating mainly on research monographs in psychology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) has grown into an international publisher and distributor of books, journals, software, and alternative media.
Buyer Parent:
Informa plc
Buyer:
Taylor & Francis Group plc
Taylor & Francis Group is a leading academic publisher, releasing more than 500 journals and some 1,500 books each year. The company serves the educational, industrial research, and professional markets through a dozen imprints, including Carfax, Falmer, Garland, and Routledge.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents The Thomson Corporation in the sale of American Health Consultants to Thompson Publishing Group
September 6, 2006
Synopsis:
Thompson Publishing Group, a leading provider of subscription based information services, has acquired American Health Consultants, a leading provider of healthcare information products, from The Thomson Corporation . The acquisition was completed on August 31, 2006.
Seller Parent:
Thomson Corporation
Seller:
American Health Consultants
American Health Consultants is the largest publisher of health care newsletters in the world. We began in 1974 with a single title, Hospital Infection Control. We have grown in the quarter century since to more than 80 titles serving a broad spectrum of professionals in health care.
Buyer Parent:
Avista Capital Partners
Buyer:
Thompson Publishing Group
Thompson Publishing Group, a D.C.-based information services provider, is been a leading source of analysis and guidance for business and government executives. Professionals rely on Thompson for help in tracking, and complying with, the dynamic regulatory mandates facing their organizations.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Conceptis Technologies Inc. in its sale to WebMD Health.
December 2, 2005
Synopsis:
Extending its leadership in mergers and acquisitions among online healthcare information providers, Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC represented Conceptis Technologies Inc., and its flagship cardiology portal www.theheart.org, in its sale to WebMD Health.
Seller:
Conceptis Technologies Inc.
Conceptis Technologies, a Montreal-based company, produces top-of-the-line vertical portals that open the door to a world of medical knowledge. Noted for their in-depth content, these portals, or websites, are managed and continuously updated by a distinguished editorial committee of world-renowned
Buyer Parent:
Emdeon Corporation
Buyer:
WebMD Corporation
WebMD is a leading provider of health information services to consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans.Through our public online portals, WebMD enables health-involved consumers and clinically active physicians to readily access healthcare information.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Current Medicine Group in its sale to Springer Science+Business Media
November 10, 2005
Synopsis:
Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has acquired the Current Medicine Group (CMG), a leading publisher for the healthcare community. CMG is based in the United Kingdom and the United States and consists of four different operating units.
Seller:
Current Medicine Group
Current Medicine, Current Science, and Science Press Group have joined forces to bring you an even wider range of products and services. Under the banner of Current Medicine Group (CMG) we can now provide you with everything from review journals, monographs and image collections to specialist websi
Buyer Parent:
Cinven
Springer Science+Business Media is a publishing company for specialist knowledge and information. They publish textbooks, reference works, databases and provide online services used by both academics, students and practitioners.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Adams Business Media on the sale of its Financial Magazines to Highline Media, LLC.
October 12, 2005
Synopsis:
SNL Financial LC and Summit Business Media announced SNL’s acquisition of Highline Data, Summit’s insurance information services unit. As part of the acquisition, Highline Data’s clients will now have the ability to access SNL’s robust financial institutions database with detailed profiles on more than 20,000 U.S. financial institutions.
Seller Parent:
BMO Financial Group
Seller:
Highline Data LLC
Highline Data uniquely meets the insurance and financial sectors’ needs for timely and comprehensive insurance industry financial and market data. The company publishes detailed financial information on more than 8,000 U.S. insurance companies.
Buyer Parent:
New Mountain Capital, LLC
Buyer:
SNL Financial LC
SNL Financial is a leading provider of financial information on more than 3,300 public companies and 50,000 private companies in the business sectors critical to the global economy: Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Energy and Media & Communications.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Boucher Communications Inc. in its sale to Wolters Kluwer Health
September 9, 2005
Synopsis:
Wolters Kluwer Health announced that it has acquired the total assets of Pennsylvania-based Boucher Communications Inc.. BCI assets will become a part of Wolters Kluwer Health's Medical Research unit, a leading provider of print and electronic research information for medical and academic institutions, medical practitioners, and corporations.
Seller:
Boucher Communication Inc.
Publishers information tech and vision care trade mags The company publishes four specialized magazines serving the informational and educational needs of vision care professionals: Eyecare Business, Contact Lens Spectrum, Optometric Management, and Ophthalmology Management, as well as numerous spe
Buyer Parent:
Wolters Kluwer NV
Buyer:
Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks.
Physicians’ Education Resource Acquired By Providence Equity
July 15, 2005
Synopsis:
Physicians’ Education Resource, L.P. ("PER") has been sold to Medical Media Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners, Inc. PER, based in Dallas, TX, is a widely respected provider of fully accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) conferences & publications.
Seller:
Physicians' Education Resource
Physicians’ Education Resource ("PER"), is a widely respected provider of fully accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) conferences & publications targeted to physicians who specialize in oncology.
Providence Equity Partners Inc. is a private investment firm specializing in equity investments in communications and media companies around the world. The principals of Providence Equity manage funds with approximately $21 billion in equity commitments.
Berkery, Noyes & Co. advises The Wicks Group on the purchase of DesignWrite, Inc. from Founders
April 13, 2005
Synopsis:
Wicks Medical Information, LLC today announced that it has completed the acquisition of DesignWrite, Inc. and PharmaWrite, LLC (collectively, "DesignWrite"). DesignWrite is a leading specialty healthcare communications, publishing and medical education company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Seller:
DesignWrite, LLC
We offer a comprehensive approach to product positioning, providing strategic marketing, scientific, and editorial support to meet individual challenges throughout a product’s life cycle.
Buyer Parent:
The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C.
Wicks Medical Information, LLC ("WMI") is a medical information services company formed in January 2003. WMI's strategy is to acquire mid-size companies in the medical education and publishing sectors focused on providing information to doctors, nurses, and other service providers in the healthcare
