Starr teamed up with Partners Group AG (PGHN) of Switzerland to purchase New York-based MultiPlan from BC Partners Holdings Ltd. and Silver Lake Management LLC, the firms said in a statement yesterday. The statement didn’t disclose financial terms.

The purchase price is about $4.4 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the transaction who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The two private equity firms purchased MultiPlan for about 2.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) in 2010, two of the people said.

Rich Tauberman, a spokesman for Starr, and Silver Lake spokeswoman Gemma Hart declined to comment on the purchase price. Representatives for BC Partners and Partners Group in New York didn’t immediately respond to e-mails and calls seeking comment.

“With the investment led by Starr and Partners Group, we have the long-term capital, strategic support and collective set of relationships to further grow our company,” MultiPlan Chief Executive Officer Mark Tabak said in the statement.

Starr Investment Holdings, an investment firm, forms part of Starr Companies, which is headed by Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc.

MultiPlan helps health-care companies manage costs and measure financial risks, working with more than 900,000 health-care providers and handling about 40 million claims annually, according to today’s statement.

Starr approached the sellers and MultiPlan hadn’t been put up for auction, one of the people said.

The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 16 that the companies were close to a deal for $4.4 billion, citing people the newspaper didn’t identify by name.

To contact the reporters on this story: Kiel Porter in London at kporter17@bloomberg.net; Jodi Xu in New York at jxu205@bloomberg.net; Serena Saitto in New York atssaitto@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Edward Evans at eevans3@bloomberg.net

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-17/starr-and-partners-to-purchase-multiplan-for-4-4-billion.html

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