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Accentcare, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Guardian Home Care Holdings
AccentCare, Inc., a recently acquired portfolio company of Paul, Weiss client Oak Hill Capital Partners, completed its acquisition of Guardian Home Care Holdings, Inc. (Guardian) on December 22, 2010. The combination of the AccentCare and Guardian businesses creates one of the largest health care operators in the industry.
AccentCare, a premier provider of home health care services, and Guardian, a leading home care and hospice service provider in Tennessee, Georgia and Texas, together will operate over 130 branches across 10 states, serving more than 30,000 patients.
The financial terms of the transaction were not publicly disclosed.
The Paul, Weiss team advising Oak Hill and AccentCare included M&A partner Angelo Bonvino; tax partner David R. Sicular; employee benefits partner Robert C. Fleder; intellectual property partner Charles H. Googe Jr.; real estate partner Mitchell L. Berg; finance partner Eric Goodison; and environmental counsel William J. O'Brien.