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MedServe
Receives $70 Million In Equity Funding to Begin Next Round of Medical
Waste Industry Consolidation
At least three more
acquisitions expected to close by year-end
Houston, TX - October 5, 2006 -- MedServe,
Inc. has completed another round of capitalization to fund the
company’s continued consolidation of local and regional operators
in the medical waste industry nationwide. With an investment commitment
of $50 million from Avista Capital Partners, combined with an additional
$20 million in existing shareholder commitments and debt conversion,
MedServe management believes it has sufficient equity funding to
achieve its goal of more than $150 million in annual revenues. At
least three transactions are expected to close by year-end 2006
with several more planned for 2007.
Avista Capital Partners joins Chrysalis Ventures II, L.P., Murphree
Venture Partners VI, L.P., Cogene Biotech Ventures II, L.P. and
Erasmus Louisiana Growth Fund, L.P. in capitalizing MedServe’s
aggressive expansion plans.
MedServe’s management has completed eight acquisitions over
the past 18 months in its quest to become the second largest company
in the medical waste management sector. These acquisitions, combined
with strong organic growth, have tripled MedServe’s customer
base and quadrupled revenues in the first nine months of 2006. The
company is led by Roger Ramsey, former founder and chief executive
officer of Allied Waste Industries and co-founder of Browning Ferris
Industries (BFI) and Mike Fields, former president of BFI Medical
Waste.
“The medical waste industry is very fragmented with the exception
of one large, single national player. There’s a compelling
opportunity for a strong second player to emerge through consolidation,”
said MedServe Chairman and CEO Roger Ramsey. “MedServe already
has a proven track record of successful add-on acquisitions since
our formation in 2005. We appreciate the support of our investors
to allow us to forge ahead to build towards a national footprint.”
MedServe,
based in Houston, Texas, currently has an active public and private
hospital, patient clinic, physician and laboratory customer base
primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California. MedServe President
Mike Fields noted, “Current letters of intent should allow
us to expand into at least two additional geographic markets by
year end.”
About MedServe
MedServe Inc., with its Med-Shred, Enserv and Envirosolve subsidiaries,
is headquartered in Houston, Texas. We serve hospitals and smaller-quantity
medical waste generators across the Southeast, Southwest, West and
Midwest, providing turnkey medical waste management solutions. These
turnkey services include high quality mobile medical waste treatment
services, waste liability management, waste minimization programs,
sharps tracking and retrieval and medical and hazardous waste collection,
transport, treatment and disposal. For additional information about
our medical waste management solutions, please visit www.medserve.com.
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