Healthcare

Humana takes different tack in partnering with PE on healthcare deals

Frazier Healthcare's hospice company Abode nears sale to Tailwind

L Capital, the PE arm of an executive-search firm for sponsors, eyes second fund

Column: Bain's Kara Murphy on the Amazon Effect, provider deal flow

Andera Partners leads $24.5 mln Series A for MMI

Andera Partners led a $24.5 million Series A financing for Medical Microinstruments (MMI), an Italian company which helps surgeons offer more advanced microsurgical procedures. Other investors included Panakes Partners, Fountain Healthcare, Sambatech, Gus Castello and John Engels.

Water Street, JLL acquire Triplefin

Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners acquired Triplefin, which delivers patient support. Triplefin's management team will stay the same through the acquisition. Financial details were not being disclosed.

Blue Wolf names Jeremy Kogler a partner of the firm

Blue Wolf Capital Partners named Jeremy Kogler a partner of the firm. Kogler joined Blue Wolf in 2010 and was previously a principal at the firm. Before Blue Wolf Kogler worked as a multi-strategy analyst for EnTrust Capital Partners.

PE-backed Sotera Health to sell Nordion assets to BWXT

Sotera Health LLC has agreed to sell the medical isotopes unit of its Nordion business to BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT), a U.S. supplier of nuclear components and fuel. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal, which includes Nordion's radiochemical operation and contract manufacturing services in Ottawa and the medical isotope operation in Vancouver. As a result, Nordion, bought in 2014 by Sotera for US$826 million, will focus on growing its gamma technologies division. Sotera, a Broadview Heights, Ohio-based contract sterilization company, is owned by U.S. private equity firms Warburg Pincus and GTCR.

Webster recaps Center for Discovery, combines with LA addiction-treatment company Cliffside Malibu

Blackstone walks away with the win for autism-treatment company CARD