EyeCare Associates of East Texas Announces Partnership With Private Equity Firm EyeCare Partners

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) has announced a new partnership between EyeCare Associates of East Texas (ECA) and EyeCare Partners (ECP) resulting in the addition of ECA’s four Texas clinics to ECP’s national network of medical optometry and ophthalmology practices. BGL’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team served as the exclusive financial advisor to ECA in the transaction.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in Tyler, Texas, EyeCare Associates of East Texas has grown to become one of the leading eye care providers in Eastern Texas, with four clinical locations and its own ASC with 12 providers supported by approximately 100 clinical and administrative staff. ECA provides comprehensive vision care in areas including, but not limited to, cataract surgery, retina treatment, glaucoma treatment, and Lasik surgery.

Based in St. Louis, Missouri, EyeCare Partners currently offers medical eye care services throughout Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. The doctors of ECP serve the vision care needs of hundreds of thousands of patients annually.

EyeCare Partners LLC is a portfolio company of Partners Group, one of the largest private markets investment managers in the world.