Kindred Healthcare $1.8 billion acquisition of Gentiva Health Services

Overview:

• Kindred Healthcare has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of Gentiva Health Services.
• The newly formed company is the largest long-term acute care and inpatient rehabilitation services provider in the US.
• The deal was first announced in October, 2014.
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Richard Lincer) and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher advised Kindred.
• Greenberg Traurig (Dennis Block, Gary Snyder) advised Gentiva.
• Cahill Gordon & Reindel represented the consortium that financed the acquisition as joint bookrunning managers of Kindred's $1.35 billion notes issue.

Kurt Stumpo - Journalist - North America and the Caribbean