Acino

Investing to
Advance Outcomes

Avista invests in leading healthcare companies to drive growth and build lasting value. Our sector focus, operational insights and flexible capital solutions enable us to provide owners, management teams and investors access to opportunity within a dynamic and diverse industry.

National Spine & Pain Centers

Investing to
Advance Outcomes

Avista invests in leading healthcare companies to drive growth and build lasting value. Our sector focus, operational insights and flexible capital solutions enable us to provide owners, management teams and investors access to opportunity within a dynamic and diverse industry.

Acino

Investing to
Advance Outcomes

Avista invests in leading healthcare companies to drive growth and build lasting value. Our sector focus, operational insights and flexible capital solutions enable us to provide owners, management teams and investors access to opportunity within a dynamic and diverse industry.

About

Avista focuses on investing in and growing healthcare companies. Our deep industry expertise and proactive value-added investment approach creates enduring partnerships with our portfolio companies.

We were founded in 2005 as a spin-out from DLJ Merchant Banking, which at the time was one of the world's largest and most renowned investment firms. We believe we have built a world-class private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Our long tenure in the market leads to a deep understanding of the micro and macro trends driving value and opportunity within the healthcare sector.

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  • Disciplined focus on stable healthcare assets where Avista's sector expertise can drive accelerated growth
  • Nearly $8 billion invested in 40+ healthcare companies
  • Supported more than 70 add-on acquisitions, representing over $7.5 billion of cumulative transaction value and over $4.5 billion of revenue acquired

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  • Leadership team has invested together for over 2 decades in the healthcare sector
  • 25 investment and operations professionals
  • 8 Healthcare Strategic Executives
  • Meet our Team and Operating Executives

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    Our healthcare investment strategy is based on years of experience, discipline, focus, and sustainable value generation.

    Approach

    Avista utilizes a proactive, hands-on approach to create value in our portfolio companies.

    We believe that the rising global demand for healthcare products and services will continue to create attractive opportunities for Avista. We look for businesses with strong management teams, stable cash flows and robust growth prospects. Our creative structuring and financing solutions allow us to maintain flexibility with respect to deal structure, and we utilize a prudent approach to leverage. Avista’s Operating Executives and Advisors are an integral part of our team, providing strategic insight, operational oversight, and senior counsel that help drive growth and performance to create long-term value and sustainable businesses.

      Focus
    • Avista focuses on mid-sized companies concentrated in the following healthcare subsectors: outsourced pharma & medtech services, consumer healthcare, medical devices, specialty & generic pharmaceuticals, distribution & diagnostics, and healthcare technology.
    • Expertise
    • In today’s competitive market Avista knows you need to do more than merely buy right. We utilize a blend of financial sophistication, operating perspectives, regulatory insight, and business management skills to actively support management teams to drive organic growth, pursue accretive acquisitions, and increase operational efficiencies.
    • Network
    • We believe that the extensive network of healthcare industry relationships developed by our investment team and Operating Executives are critical to Avista’s ability to source, evaluate, and execute opportunities.

    Our partners have over 100 years of combined private equity investing experience. They are supported by an experienced and committed team, along with noted healthcare industry experts.

    Team

    Partners

    Thompson Dean

    Chairman and Co-Head of Investment Committee

    David Burgstahler

    Managing Partner and CEO

    Alex Yu

    Partner
    Strategic Executives
    Investment Professionals

    Garrett Lustig

    Principal

    Ryan Moran

    Principal

    Thania Amberiadis

    Vice President

    Elaine Tang

    Vice President

    Beibhinn George

    Associate

    Gillian Gude

    Associate

    Alex Jenkins

    Associate
    Business Management Team

    Ben Silbert

    Managing Director, General Counsel

    John Cafasso

    Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer

    Amanda Heravi

    Managing Director, IR & ESG

    Anthony Russo

    Director, Accounting and Operations

    Roshni Charles

    Tax Director

    Hector Cortes

    Management Company Controller

    Alex Watson

    Administration

    Elaine Stenson

    Administration

    Abbey Schoenhaus

    Administration

    Sara Micare

    Administration

    Alysabel Mamutuk

    Administration

    Max Dooley

    Senior Accountant

    Across the healthcare sector, Avista partners with businesses that have strong management teams, stable cash flows and robust growth prospects.

    Portfolio

    Accellent
    Acino International AG
    ACP Northern Holdings
    AngioDynamics
    Arcadia Consumer Healthcare
    BioReliance Corporation
    Braeburn Inc.
    Charles River Laboratories
    ConvaTec Group
    Cooper Consumer Health
    Cosette Pharmaceuticals
    eMolecules
    Fisher Scientific
    Focus Diagnostics
    GCM
    INC Research
    Inform Diagnostics
    IVAC
    Kinetic Concepts
    Lantheus Medical Imaging
    MPI Research
    National Spine & Pain Centers
    Nycomed
    OptiNose Healthcare
    Organogenesis
    Oxford Health Plans
    Probo Medical
    Prometheus Laboratories
    RVL Pharmaceuticals
    Shoppers Drug Mart Limited
    Solmetex
    Spear Education
    Strategic Partners
    Taconic Biosciences
    Trimb Holding AB
    United BioSource Corporation
    Vision Healthcare
    VWR International
    Warner Chilcott
    WellSpring Consumer Healthcare
    Xifin
    Zest Dental Solutions

    Responsibility

    Avista Capital Partners believes in responsible investing practices. Avista recognizes that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues may affect investment performance, and furthermore, that the effective management of ESG issues can create better risk-adjusted returns. Therefore, we are committed to incorporating ESG factors into our operations and those of our portfolio companies. Our ESG program includes internal accountability and education, pre-investment diligence and portfolio monitoring to ensure strong corporate citizenship.

    To review Avista’s ESG policy click here.

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    Contact

    Avista Capital Holdings, LP
    65 East 55th Street
    18th Floor
    New York, NY 10022

    Email: info@avistacap.com
    Phone: 212.593.6900