Vista Equity Partners/UnitedHealth Group $2.58 billion acquisition of Advisory Board Company

Overview:

• Vista Equity and UnitedHealth Group have split The Advisory Board apart.
• Affiliates of Vista Equity Partners have acquired Advisory Board's education business for $1.3 billion.
• UnitedHealth acquired Advisory Board's healthcare business. 
• The healthcare business will be merged with UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum.
• Both acquisitions totaled $2.58 billion. 
• Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co provided financial advice to Advisory Board, while Evercore and Macquarie Capital acted as financial advisers for Vista Equity Partners.

Katrin Kostadinova - Data analyst