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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: PE Firm Candescent Partners Acquires Eye Health Vision Centers

By Geoff Cockrell on January 14, 2013
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Boston-based private equity firm Candescent Partners has announced its portfolio company, Koch Eye Associates, has acquired Eye Health Vision Centers.

Koch Eye Associates, headquartered in Warwick, R.I., is one of the largest providers of optometry and ophthalmology services in New England.

Eye Health Vision Centers, headquartered in Dartmouth, Mass., is one of the largest providers of ophthalmology and optometry services in Massachusetts.

Candescent led the transaction with co-investors Eagle Private Capital, First New England Capital, Bay Capital, Pine Street Capital Partners and Plexus Capital.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Geoff is the immediate past chair of the firm’s private equity group where he served for over a decade. He also formerly served on the firm’s Board of Partners. He has a wide scope of experience in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions.

Geoff is the immediate past chair of the firm’s private equity group where he served for over a decade. He also formerly served on the firm’s Board of Partners. He has a wide scope of experience in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. His mergers and acquisition experience, representing private equity sponsors, strategic purchasers and sellers extends across a diverse number of industries with a primary focus on healthcare provider services transactions. Geoff is a national contributor both at conferences and in publications on a wide array of issues unique to the private equity industry. He regularly contributes to Law360’s Healthcare and Private Equity sections, and is an author of The Healthcare Investor, a blog on healthcare finance topics.

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