US private equity groups BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners have agreed to purchase health-care business MultiPlan in one of the year’s largest leveraged buyouts, valuing the company at $3.1bn, reports the WSJ. Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe are selling MultiPlan. People close to the transaction say Carlyle will make more than three times its investment in MultiPlan, which it acquired in 2006, added the Journal.

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