Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital Acquire athenahealth

Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital Acquire athenahealth for $17 Billion

February 15, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Affiliates of Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital completed the $17 billion acquisition of athenahealth from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital. The deal brings in additional coinvestors (including an affiliate of GIC and a subsidiary of ADIA) while Veritas and Evergreen each retain minority investments as the buyers look to scale athenahealth's cloud-based healthcare SaaS platform.

Elliott, Patient Square and Veritas Acquire Syneos Health for ~$7.1B

May 10, 2023

Healthcare Services

A consortium of private investment firms—Elliott Investment Management, Patient Square Capital and Veritas Capital—has completed the acquisition of Syneos Health for $43.00 per share, a transaction valued at approximately $7.1 billion including debt. Syneos Health will become a privately held company, with the new owners planning to accelerate its transformation, invest in technology and strengthen its integrated biopharmaceutical services.

Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital Acquire Cubic Corporation

May 25, 2021

Aerospace & Defense

Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital (an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management) completed a go-private acquisition of Cubic Corporation, with the transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion including assumed debt. Under amended terms, Cubic shareholders received $75.00 per share in cash; Cubic will remain based in San Diego, California under the new private ownership.

Gainwell Technologies (Veritas) Acquires HMS Holdings Corp.

April 1, 2021

Healthcare Services

Veritas Capital-backed Gainwell Technologies completed the acquisition of HMS Holdings Corp. for $37.00 per share, taking HMS private and delisting its shares from Nasdaq. Veritas will align HMS capabilities across Gainwell (Medicaid/state-focused solutions) and Veritas-backed Cotiviti (commercial, Medicare and federal-focused solutions) to expand payment integrity, analytics and Medicaid administration offerings.

Cohesity Acquires Veritas' Data Protection Business to Form $7B Company

February 8, 2024

Cybersecurity

Cohesity has combined with Veritas Technologies' enterprise data protection business to create a combined data-protection leader valued at roughly $7 billion. The transaction—funded by a Series H led by Haveli Investments with participation from multiple existing and new investors—scales Cohesity's AI-powered data security and management portfolio, expands workload support (including Veritas NetBackup and appliances), and positions Sanjay Poonen to lead the combined company.

Veritas Capital Acquires Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

February 22, 2022

Education

Certain affiliates of Veritas Capital have acquired Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in a $21-per-share tender offer that implied an equity value of approximately $2.8 billion. HMH will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Veritas, with CEO Jack Lynch and the current management team remaining in place, and Veritas intends to accelerate HMH's digital transformation and expand its market-leading K‑12 digital offerings.