{"id":43146,"date":"2016-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/invent-pharma-palex-ma-sector-sanitario-junio-2016\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:38:08","slug":"invent-pharma-palex-ma-sector-sanitario-junio-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/invent-pharma-palex-ma-sector-sanitario-junio-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Invent Pharma and Palex: Healthcare M&A June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span>Venture capital firms are boosting the healthcare sector in Spain. This month we learned that Corpfin has bought Palex, a medical device company, to provide it with sufficient liquidity to make mergers and acquisitions<\/a>. In addition, Apax Partners has also invested heavily in the sector and bought Invent Pharma for \u20ac220M.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
<\/span>Apax Partners buys Invent Pharma for \u20ac220M<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Invent Farma,<\/span> a laboratory based in Sant Joan Desp\u00ed (Baix Llobregat), is changing hands once again. Apax Partners has closed for about \u20ac220M the purchase of the pharmaceutical group comprising Laboratorios Lesvi, Inke and Quilaten.<\/span><\/p>\n

This operation is the first one that the British fund has carried out in Catalonia since 2007, when it took control of Electro Stocks Group<\/a><\/span>a company dedicated to the professional distribution of electrical, automation, air conditioning and plumbing equipment, in which it now holds the entire share capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Invent Farma has its origins in 2004, when Icelandic pharmaceutical entrepreneur Fridrik Steinn Kristj\u00e1nsson bought industrial assets from the former Catalan group Vita. Kristj\u00e1nsson divested most of his stake in 2013 in favour of Icelandic funds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The laboratory manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients in Castellbisbal (Vall\u00e8s Occidental) for its own products and for third parties; its customers include European and Japanese pharmaceutical companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, Invent Farma, which employs 430 people, has specialised in niche products, particularly in the respiratory and ophthalmology fields. The company made the leap to the United States in 2015, when it set up its first subsidiary in New Jersey. The subsidiary is focused solely on commercial functions.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Corpfin compra Palex, para dar musculo financiero al grupo que quiere realizar mergers and acquisitions<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

The Knuth family, founder and owner of Palex, has decided to sell a majority stake in the healthcare technology group to a private equity fund. Corpfin<\/a>.<\/span> The aim of the operation is for Palex to gain financial muscle to embark on a new phase of growth by acquiring companies in the sector and diversifying its business lines. Palex<\/a><\/span> ya tiene sobre la mesa varias mergers and acquisitions<\/a> y contar\u00e1 a partir de ahora con la experiencia de Corpfin Capital en materia de integraciones y procesos de build up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Headquartered in Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e8s and with a workforce of 300, the healthcare technology and supplies group operates through ten divisions and markets the products of more than 400 international companies. Palex Medical, which does not manufacture, is particularly strong in technology and instruments for cardiac surgery, such as valves and pacemakers. Orthopaedic surgery is another of its business pillars, along with diagnostics and nephrology. Its star products include a device that allows dialysis to be performed at the patient's home and Oncotype, a predictive test for breast cancer. Werfen, also from Catalonia, is one of its main competitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Private equity firms are driving the healthcare sector in Spain. This month we learned that Corpfin has bought Palex, a medical devices company, to give it sufficient liquidity to carry out mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Apax Partners has also invested heavily in the sector and bought Invent Pharma for \u20ac220M.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[296,654,334,655],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-43146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiplos-de-empresas-cotizadas","tag-capital-riesgo-2015","tag-ma-biotecnologia","tag-ma-espana","tag-ma-sector-salud","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=43146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}