(Adds shares in paragraph 2, deal value in paragraph 3)
Dec 23 (Reuters) -
Health insurer NeueHealth NEUE.N said on Monday that an
affiliate of New Enterprise Associates and a consortium of
investors would take it private at an enterprise value of about
$1.3 billion.
Shares of the company were up 62.4% in extended trading.
The deal, at $7.33 per share in cash, represents a
premium of around 70% over NeueHealth's closing stock price on
Monday.
(Reporting by Anuja Bharat Mistry and Puyaan Singh in
Bengaluru; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)
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