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GTCR and Gregory T. Lucier Announce Merger of Surgical Specialties and TachoSil to Create Corza Medical
February 1, 2021 GMT
CHICAGO and WESTWOOD, Mass., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that its management partnership with Gregory T. Lucier, Corza Health, has simultaneously acquired and merged Surgical Specialties Corporation (“Surgical Specialties”) and the TachoSil® Fibrin Sealant Patch (“TachoSil”) to create a new company, Corza Medical. Surgical Specialties is a medical technology company focused on high-performance surgical sutures and ophthalmic knives. TachoSil, previously owned by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, is a differentiated surgical patch product line used to enable safe and fast bleeding control during surgeries.