 Avista Capital Partners

Avista Capital Partners is an American private equity firm focused on growth capital and leveraged buyout investments in middle-market companies in the healthcare sector.The firm, based in New York City, was founded in 2005 by Steven Webster, Thompson Dean and David Burgstahler, as a spinoff from Credit Suisse's private equity arm DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (Dean was head of DLJMBP).