Short Takes: Chase Unit Invests in Health, Seafood Firms

Chase Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Chase Manhattan Corp., announced two new investments last week.

It invested, along with the New York-based private equity group GarMark Partners, $110 million in subordinated notes and preferred stock in FHC Health Systems. FHC will use the capital to acquire a spinoff from Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.

The troubled Nashville-based health management organization is spinning off Value Behavioral Health, a managed behavioral health care company. FHC already operates a behavioral facility for troubled children.

Separately, Chase announced the acquisition, along with private equity firm Concord Investment Partners, of two processors and distributors of smoked seafood products.

The companies-Homarus Inc., Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Marshall Smoked Fish Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.-are part of Concord's strategy of building up a seafood company through leveraged buyouts.

Compiled by J. Alex Tarquinio

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