Avista Capital Partners has announced it will sell Arcadia Consumer Healthcare to Bansk Group.
Arcadia, based in Bridgewater, N.J., is a provider of over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and nutritional supplements. Among its flagship brands: Nizoral, NATURELO, Kaopectate, Fungi-Nail and Opti-Nail. The company was formerly known as Kramer Laboratories.
Avista Capital Partners, based in New…
Sedlar-Sholty, et al. v. Acclivity West, LLC, et al. was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles on July 19, 2021 seeking damages for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligent and intentional misrepresentation in connection with a life settlement investment Ponzi scheme.
Plaintiffs are numerous individual and trustee investors who made investments in life insurance policies, either independently or through their retirement programs. Defendants are Acclivity West LLC (“Acclivity West”), a California company, and several owners and employees of Acclivity West.
Cressey & Co. has announced a significant growth investment in Home Care Pulse.
Home Care Pulse, based in Rexburg, Idaho, is a provider of satisfaction management, training, and performance benchmarking solutions. Founded in 2008, the company supports the home care industry and other post-acute end markets.
Cressey & Co., with offices in Chicago…
Aquiline Capital Partners has acquired Avera eCare from Avera Health, according to a news release.
Avera eCare, based in Sioux Falls, S.D. is a telemedicine services provider. The company reports that it is partnered with more than 600 healthcare systems, rural hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, assisted livings and schools across the country.…
In Stop Illinois Health Care Fraud, LLC v. Sayeed, No. 12-CV-09306, 2021 WL 2331338 (N.D. Ill. June 8, 2021), an Illinois district court issued an order after a recent bench trial finding that the defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA), Illinois False Claims Act (IFCA), and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) when they paid a community care organization for access to the organization’s raw client data, and then used that data to solicit clients for Medicare reimbursed healthcare services. Although this arrangement consisted of no direct referrals, the district court – following the 7th Circuit’s instructions on remand – held that such arrangements constitute prohibited, indirect referrals under what the court called a “file access theory.” Under this theory, the district court found that AKS liability attached because the payments were intended as remuneration for access to records that leads to the solicitation of additional healthcare services. This case is important as it illustrates once again how broadly the government and courts define “referral” in the AKS context.
Hughes & Company has announced it has closed its first private equity fund, Hughes Growth Equity Fund I, at $116 million.
This figure exceeds the original target of $100 million.
Based in Chicago, Hughes & Company seeks control and minority equity investments exclusively in healthcare software and technology-enabled services companies, Founded in 2011, the firm has wide…
According to a July 28 article in Law360 by McGuireWoods lawyers Michael J. Podberesky, John S. Moran, Todd R. Steggerda, David Pivnick and Cassandra M. Burns, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision declining to review an appeal of a Seventh Circuit case that could have resolved a three-way circuit split regarding…
McGuireWoods has long been an avid supporter of the advancement of professional women. As part of our initiative seeking to expand the leadership of women in private equity, we are continuing our series of profiling women leaders in private equity. We are hopeful that this series will serve to inspire other women to pursue their…
Ballard v. NTB Financial Corporation was filed in the Arapahoe County District Court on July 7, 2021, claiming that Defendants conspired with Financial Visions, Inc. (“FV”) and its principal, Dan Rudden (“Rudden”), to induce investors into purchasing unregistered securities in violation of antifraud provisions of the Colorado Securities Act.
Plaintiffs are individuals and a business entity who invested in promissory notes sold by FV and Rudden. Defendants are NTB Financial Corporation (“NTB”), an investment firm based in Denver, Colorado, and George Louis McCaffrey III, a registered representative employed by NTB that is alleged to have advised certain clients to invest in the unregistered promissory notes.
Morrison, et al. v. Rockwell, et al. was filed in California Superior Court, Marin County, on May 28, 2021. The complaint seeks civil damages for claims of breach of fiduciary duty, multiple violations of the California Corporations Code, constructive fraud, breach of contract, and negligence.
Plaintiffs are a group of investors who used Defendants as investment advisors. Defendants are a series of corporate entities, Dow Rockwell, LLC, Rockwell Retirement Partners, and Marin Wealth Management, LLC, an individual investment advisor, Rick Rockwell, and many unnamed defendants Plaintiffs believe may have been involved in aiding Defendants.
