Avista Healthcare Partners has acquired Bentec Medical from Greyrock Capital Group and Hermitage Equity Partners, according to a news release.

Bentec, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Woodland, California, is a manufacturer of complex, silicone-based medical device components and finished goods for OEM customers and healthcare providers. 

Avista, founded in 2005 and based in New York, makes control buyout investments in middle market healthcare companies. The firm focuses on the following healthcare subsectors: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, outsourced pharmaceutical services, distribution and consumer-driven healthcare.

Greyrock, founded in 2002 and based in Walnut Creek, California, is an investor in mezzanine debt and equity to middle-market companies.

Hermitage, founded in 2009 and based in Dallas, is a middle market private equity firm that invests across several sectors, including healthcare. The firm prefers to purchase companies with revenue ranging from $10 million to $250 million. 

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Sterling Group has announced its acquisition of Healthcare Linen Services Group (HLSG) from York Private Equity.

HLSG, founded in 2009 and based in St. Charles, Illinois, is a provider of healthcare laundry services in the Midwest and Central United States. The company operates processing plants across six regional brands that serve customers in 13 states.

Sterling, founded in 1982 and based in Houston, Texas, is a middle market private equity firm. The firm targets investments in basic manufacturing, distribution and industrial services companies with typical enterprise values of these companies at initial formation ranging from $100 million to $1 billion.

York Private Equity, launched in 2008 and based in New York, is the private investing arm of York Capital Management. The division primarily targets control investments in middle market businesses in healthcare, consumer and wellness, and business and industrial services.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Council Capital has announced its acquisition of MedicalServiceQuotes.com (MSQ).

MSQ, founded in 2009 and based in Castle Rock, Colorado, is a technology platform for payers and employers to procure and manage ancillary services and pharmacy benefits.

Council Capital, founded in 2000 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, focuses on lower middle market healthcare companies. The firm pursues majority and minority investments in companies with enterprise values generally between $10 million and $100 million.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Havencrest Capital Management has announced a majority recapitalization of OFFOR Health.

OFFOR, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, provides office-based anesthesia services for complex pediatric dental procedures.

Havencrest, founded in 2018 and based in Dallas, is a lower middle market private equity investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. The firm prefers to partner with founder-owned healthcare companies with EBITDA between $3 million and $15 million and enterprise value of $25 million to $250 million.

Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

“Our big mantra is: ‘Medicine is local,'” says Kevin Baker, who partners with emergency medicine groups across the United States in his role as director of development at Emergency Care Partners.

In this conversation with McGuireWoods partner and host Geoff Cockrell, Kevin lays out the landscape of the U.S. emergency department sector, where about a third of hospitals now in-source their physicians. He unpacks the major headwinds facing emergency department operators: patient boarding, NSA fallout, declining reimbursement and EMTALA’s built-in bad debt burden.

Tune in to hear what he describes as the biggest competition Emergency Care Partners faced — it may surprise you.

BPOC has announced the sale of Midwest Products & Engineering (MPE) to Graham Partners.

MPE, founded in 1978 and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a contract designer, developer and manufacturer of electromechanical and robotic-assisted surgical systems for the medical device market.

BPOC, founded in 1996 and based in Chicago, seeks control and minority equity investments in middle market companies exclusively within the healthcare industry. The firm pursues companies generating at least $3 million in EBITDA through a wide range of investments. Within healthcare, the firm targets companies in the provider services, life sciences/pharmaceutical and non-reimbursement industries.

Graham Partners, founded in 1998 and based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, is a private investment firm focused on industrial technology and advanced manufacturing businesses. 

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

In this episode of the Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast, McGuireWoods Partner Amber Walsh draws on Bruce Lee’s philosophy of taking what is useful, discarding what is not, and forging a personalized path forward, exploring how those principles apply to leadership, mentorship, and continuous growth in business and life.

Listen to the full episode here.

Holly Buckley, Chair of Health Care at McGuireWoods, joined the Healthcare Success Podcast to share her outlook on the healthcare private equity market in 2026 ahead of the McGuireWoods annual Healthcare Private Equity and Finance Conference in Chicago (April 29-30).

On the program, she discusses why deal discipline has replaced the rapid roll-up strategies of prior years, which sectors are drawing the most investor interest, and how growing regulatory complexity at both the state and federal levels is affecting transaction timelines and costs. She also touches on what separates high-value platforms from the rest, and what AI developments are worth taking seriously versus those that aren’t yet ready for PE investment.

Watch the full episode below.

LongueVue Capital (LVC) has announced a strategic investment in Apex Dental Laboratory Group in partnership with Swaney Group Capital (SGC).

Apex, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waco, Texas, operates a network of 16 dental laboratories across 12 states.

LVC, founded in 2001 and based in New Orleans, is a middle market private equity firm. The firm pursues a wide range of investments in healthcare and several other sectors, targeting U.S. companies with sales of $15 million or more and EBITDA of at least $3 million.

SGC, founded in 2022 and based in Tampa, Florida, is a private equity firm focused on investing in U.S.-based manufacturing and industrial businesses, with an emphasis on healthcare manufacturing.

Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Blackstone has announced the closing of its newest life sciences private fund.

The fund — Blackstone Life Sciences VI — was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap of $6.3 billion in commitments.

Blackstone (NYSE: BX), founded in 1985 and based in New York, is one of the largest global alternative asset managers. Blackstone Life Sciences (BXLS) is a private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life cycle of companies and products within life science sectors.