Avista Seals Acquisition Deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging

January 9, 2008 - Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging, a business unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb that supplies medical imaging products for nuclear and ultrasound cardiovascular diagnostic imaging procedures.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging provides medical imaging products primarily focused on cardiovascular diagnostic imaging to nuclear physicians, cardiologists, radiologists, internal medicine physicians, IDNs/GPOs and technologists/sonographers working in hospitals and outpatient clinics. The company supplies its products to hospitals, clinics and radiopharmacies in the U.S., as well as internationally in certain countries including Australia and Canada.

For more information: www.avistacap.com and www.bms.com