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Avista Capital Partners

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Avista is a cohesive team of experienced private equity professionals, with a long history of working together at DLJ Merchant Banking Partners—one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms. Avista’s team of proven investment professionals is augmented by veteran industry executives with expertise in the Energy, Healthcare and Media sectors.

Avista espouses a proven, well-developed Global Partnership Strategy – a strategy rooted in combining investment professionals with industry experts. In doing so, Avista seeks to add value to its portfolio companies through active oversight and to bring firm resources (financial, industry and strategic) to bear to augment management’s efforts.

Avista makes controlling or influential minority investments, primarily in U.S.-based companies, in connection with various transaction structures, including leveraged buyouts, build-ups and growth financings. Avista focuses its efforts primarily on three sectors in which its professionals have substantial expertise: Energy, Healthcare and Media.

Recent Milestones

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  Avista Capital Partners — Telular Corporation to Be Acquired by Avista Capital Partners (4/29/13)
  Posted 5/5/13 at 11:12pm via telular.com
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  Avista Capital Partners — Avista Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Agree to Acquire INC Research, Inc. (8/19/10)
  Posted 8/19/10 at 5:44pm via incresearch.com
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  Avista Capital Partners invested in OptiNose. (6/7/10)
  Posted 6/9/10 at 8:29pm via optinose.com

Investments

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Avista Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Agree to Acquire INC Research, Inc. (incresearch.com) [edit]
Telular Corporation to Be Acquired by Avista Capital Partners (telular.com) [edit]
1. Avista Capital Partners Commits $48.5 Million to OptiNose to Develop an Innovative Nasal Drug Delivery Technology Slated to Begin Phase III Trials (optinose.com) [edit]