{"id":25817,"date":"2011-11-03T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25817"},"modified":"2011-11-03T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:28:15","slug":"hedge-fund-mergers-acquisitions-blackstone-acquires-emdeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/hedge-fund-mergers-acquisitions-blackstone-acquires-emdeon.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Mergers &#038; Acquisitions: Blackstone Buys Up Emdeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blackstone-Group.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25819\" title=\"Blackstone-Group\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blackstone-Group-300x60.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blackstone-Group-300x60.gif 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blackstone-Group.gif 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211;\u00a0Hedge fund giant Blackstone has completed its acquisition of Emdeon Inc, a healthcare revenue and payment cycle management provider, in a transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to open a new chapter in the evolution of Emdeon. We are enthusiastic about our future as we continue to evolve our solutions to make healthcare more efficient,&#8221; said George Lazenby, chief executive officer for Emdeon. &#8220;We are also happy to be working with Blackstone and continuing our relationship with Hellman &amp; Friedman, each of whom has a very strong understanding of our marketplace and a tremendous track record of success in partnering with companies and their management teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The transaction was approved by Emdeon stockholders at a special meeting held November 1, 2011. Morgan Stanley acted as lead financial advisor and UBS Investment Bank acted as co-financial advisor to Emdeon&#8217;s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <br \/>Editor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211;\u00a0Hedge fund giant Blackstone has completed its acquisition of Emdeon Inc, a healthcare revenue and payment cycle management provider, in a transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion. &#8220;We are excited to open a new chapter in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activist-funds","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25821,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions\/25821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}