Simpson Thacher Represents BC Partners and Silver Lake in Acquisition of MultiPlan Holdings, Inc.
The Firm is representing BC Partners and Silver Lake in their acquisition of MultiPlan Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. MultiPlan Holdings, Inc. is the nation's oldest and largest supplier of independent, network-based cost management solutions for the healthcare industry. The transaction is one of the largest leveraged buy-outs of the year to date.
The Simpson Thacher team working on the transaction included: Bill Dougherty, Jason Breen, Jeremy Barr, Viktor Sapezhnikov and summer associate Kevin Chang (M&A); Jen Hobbs and Wendy Wu (Credit); Ken Wallach (Capital Markets); Gary Mandel and Rian Balfour (Tax); Greg Grogan and David Schneider (Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits); Lori Lesser and Marcela Robledo (Intellectual Property); and David Vann, Michael Naughton and Ellen Frye (Antitrust).