M&A Deal Summary

EQT Acquires BSN medical

On June 11, 2012, private equity firm EQT acquired medical products company BSN medical from Montagu for 1.8B EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is EQT’s 8th transaction in the Medical Products sector.
  • This is EQT’s 15th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is EQT’s 19th transaction in Germany.
Investment Fate
  • BSN medical was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2016 for 2.7B EUR.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-06-11
Target BSN medical
Sector Medical Products
Buyer(s) EQT
Sellers(s) Montagu
Deal Type Secondary Buyout
Deal Value 1.8B EUR
Advisor(s) HSBC Global Banking and Markets (Financial)
Clifford Chance (Legal)

Target

BSN medical

Hamburg, Germany
BSN medical GmbH is an innovative medical solutions company with well-known brands such as Leukoplast, Cutimed, JOBST, Delta Cast, Delta Lite and Actimove which are long established brand leaders in their key markets.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

EQT

Stockholm, Sweden

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1994
PE ASSETS 242.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

EQT is a global private equity group that purses a variety of investment strategies around the world. EQT is divided into several investment disciplines, including private capital, real assets, credit, and venture. The Firm's private capital group targets large, market-leading enterprises (investment size of €125 to €1.5 billion) across Europe and the US, as well as mid-market, growth companies (investment size of €40 to €125 million) across the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. The Firm's real assets group seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments (investment size of €500 to €1 billion) in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, and have secure cash flows. EQT's credit group provides flexible, long-term debt capital solutions to medium-sized European businesses, across a wide range of sectors. EQT was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 100 of 315
Sector (Medical Products) 8 of 14
Type (Secondary Buyout) 16 of 96
Country (Germany) 19 of 43
Year (2012) 6 of 11
Size (of disclosed) 15 of 47
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-17 Dako AS

Glostrup, Denmark

Dako AS is a global leader in tissue based cancer diagnostics. Dako provides reagents, instruments and software for high-quality cancer diagnosis and efficient laboratory processes.

Sell $2.2B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-14 Vertu

Hampshire, Finland

Vertu Corp. Ltd. is a manufacturer of luxury mobile phones.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Montagu

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1968
PE ASSETS 11.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Montagu is an independent private equity firm focused on European management buyouts and growth capital transactions. The Firm seeks opportunities valued between €100 million and €1 billion. Sectors of interest include healthcare, medical products, financial services, software, IT, information services, and education. Montagu dates back to 1968 and is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 49 of 76
Sector (Medical Products) 2 of 5
Type (Secondary Buyout) 13 of 28
Country (Germany) 5 of 6
Year (2012) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-02 CAP

Leeds, United Kingdom

CAP's data and information systems serve clients across a broad variety of automotive-related sectors. CAP's current used car values are used as the benchmark for residual values performance across the disposals industry and CAP Monitor is the leading residual values forecasting tool for the Contract Hire, Leasing, Daily Rental, Finance and Insurance industries. CAP's new vehicle data system serves a broad variety of e-commerce, DMS, showrooms and asset management systems throughout the Retail, Contract Hire, Leasing, Finance and e-commerce sectors.

Buy €170M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-29 St Hubert

Rungis, France

St Hubert produces and markets spreads in France. St Hubert was founded in 1989 and is based in Rungis, France.

Buy -