M&A Deal Summary

Alliance Boots Acquires Apteka Holding ZAO

On November 1, 2012, Alliance Boots acquired life science company Apteka Holding ZAO from The Carlyle Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Alliance Boots’ 2nd transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Alliance Boots’ 1st transaction in Russia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-11-01
Target Apteka Holding ZAO
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Alliance Boots
Sellers(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Apteka Holding ZAO

Moscow, Russia
Apteka Holding ZAO provided cost-effective and timely delivery of pharmaceuticals and related products to pharmacies, hospitals, and other end users.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Alliance Boots

Zug, Switzerland

Category Company
Sector Healthcare Services
DESCRIPTION

Alliance Boots GmbH is an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. Alliance Boots' pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses now operate more than 3,330 health and beauty retail stores in 11 countries and its pharmaceutical wholesale businesses supply medicines, other healthcare products and related services to more than 170,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals in 21 countries.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 7
Sector (Life Science) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 4
Country (Russia) 1 of 1
Year (2012) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-02-22 Hedef Alliance Holding A.S.

Istanbul, Turkey

Hedef Alliance Holding A.S. is one of the largest pharmaceutical and toiletry products to the pharmacies wholesalers in Turkey.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-05-17 Cencora

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States

Cencora is a pharmaceutical sourcing and distribution services company, helping both healthcare providers and pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers improve patient access to products and care. Cencora was founded in 2001 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 210 of 482
Sector (Life Science) 4 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 101 of 198
Country (Russia) 1 of 1
Year (2012) 21 of 29
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-29 CxS

Yokohama, Japan

CxS is a provider of cleaning, sanitation and hygiene products and solutions to institutional customers in the Japanese market.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-11-14 ETG

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

ETG owns and manages a vertically-integrated agriculture supply chain with operations in procurement, processing, warehousing, transportation, distribution and merchandising. ETG has more than 7,000 employees across 30 African countries and operates 30 processing plants and 300 warehouses. ETG connects African smallholder farmers to consumers around the world by procuring, processing and distributing agricultural commodities including maize, pulses, wheat, rice, cashew nuts, soya, fertilizer, sugar, coffee and tea.

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