April 15, 2008
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce its representation of The TriZetto Group, Inc. in its agreement to be acquired and taken private by Apax Partners, a private equity firm. The transaction is valued at $1.4 billion. TriZetto customers BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and The Regence Group will provide a portion of the funding and will be equity investors in the new company.
Gibson Dunn’s team is led by Thomas Magill, a partner in the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group, and includes associates Erik Greupner, Drew Bordages and Kevin Schubert.
Details of the transaction are available on The TriZetto Group website.
For additional information on this matter, please contact the Gibson Dunn attorney with whom you work or Thomas D. Magill (949-451-3855, [email protected]) in Gibson Dunn’s Orange County office.
Gibson Dunn’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group has extensive experience in all types of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including negotiated and contested mergers of public and private companies, stock and asset purchases, tender and exchange offers, restructurings and acquisitions out of bankruptcy, leveraged buyouts, private equity investments and joint ventures. Our M&A attorneys also provide advice to senior management, boards of directors, board committees (including special committees) and shareholders on a wide range of corporate governance matters, including the implementation of anti-takeover defenses and proxy contests.
Our Health Care and Life Sciences Practice Group represents a broad array of companies involved in health care and the life sciences, including hospital and nursing home operators, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, payors, and biotechnology companies, as well as investors in and advisors to such companies. Our corporate and transactional lawyers assist clients in connection with domestic and international public and private mergers and acquisitions, financings, securities offerings, corporate governance, licensing, development and distributorship arrangements, among other transactions.
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