Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is providing legal counsel to Aquiline Capital Partners and its portfolio company Ontellus in the sale of Ontellus to Datavant. Ontellus specializes in health records retrieval and claims intelligence, while Datavant operates as a health data platform company.
Datavant has signed an agreement to acquire Ontellus from Aquiline and Capstreet. Aquiline is known for its focus on financial services and technology investments, whereas Capstreet is a Houston-based private equity firm targeting the lower middle market. The merger between Datavant and Ontellus aims to enhance the secure and compliant exchange of clinical and billing data among providers and requesters.
The legal team from Willkie handling this transaction includes partners Jeffrey Poss and Thomas Sharkey, along with counsel Emerson W. Girardeau III.