Pamplona Capital Management to Acquire MedAssets

LONDON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) is pleased to announce it has agreed to acquire MedAssets (NASDAQ:MDAS), a leading healthcare performance improvement company that serves four out of every five hospitals in the United States. In addition, Pamplona has entered into a separate agreement with VHA-UHC Alliance NewCo, Inc. (VHA-UHC Alliance), the nation’s largest member-owned healthcare company, to divest MedAssets’ Spend and Clinical Resource Management (SCM) segment to VHA-UHC Alliance following the completion of Pamplona’s acquisition of MedAssets.