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Newsletter : Knowledge and Results

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Author: Iemke Imhof
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The past few months have been hard work on wonderful results of which we are sincerely proud. The impact of the M&A transaction for HQ Pack is significant. Ronald van Rijn and Thomas van Amerongen take you into the world around ASML.
Every year the Healtcare team works on the Care Monitor. This year the Financial Dagblad publishes two articles on the ever-increasing share of private equity parties, including interviews with Caspar van der Geest. And the complete Maritime & Offshore Sector Newsletter is now a household word.
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The team at JBR

The story behind the sale of HQ Pack

Read the interview with Ronald van Rijn and Thomas van Amerongen by Consultancy.nl, about their guidance on the sale HQ Pack, an important link in the ecosystem around ASML. They give a nice insight into a boisterously growing high-tech world full of politics, state-of-the-art cleanrooms and 50,000 euro packaging.

Ronald van Rijn: "The sale of HQ Pack should really be seen as a 'cornerstone deal' to become part of the ASML ecosystem. Because of its role on the world stage, ASML is growing so fast, and suppliers have to keep up with that growth. Under the wings of NPM Capital, HQ Pack is able to do just that."

 

Transaction: The facts of the sale of HQ Pack to NPM Capital

JBR assisted HQ Group shareholders in the transaction.
Investment firm NPM Capital joined HQ Group as the new majority shareholder.

  • HQ Group is a market leader in the development, production, cleaning and reuse of innovative and high-quality packaging solutions for the high-tech and semiconductor industries.
  • NPM Capital is an investment company with a flexible investment horizon primarily focused on the long term. They help participations grow to the next stage of development in scale and professionalism.

 

Caspar van der Geest JBR care monitor 2023

Healthcare Monitor 2023: Healthcare mergers and acquisitions

Every year, our Healthcare team examines all notifiable healthcare transactions. The latest Healthcare Monitor includes all transactions between 2019 and 2022 and provides insights into the share of private equity, strategic players and foreign investors, among others. In addition, it shows who the key players are in each segment.

The publication of the most complete overview of mergers and acquisitions/participations in the Dutch healthcare sector caused a stir, due to the growing share of private equity parties.
Het Financiƫle Dagblad wrote two articles with interviews by Caspar van der Geest.
You can read them below.

 

FD: Private equity buys hundreds of healthcare providers, time for more (oversight)?

The rise of private equity in Dutch healthcare is undeniable, but also shrouded in mists. Figures are limited and many acquisitions go under the radar, leaving little visibility on the impact.

Caspar van der Geest: "At the sector level, it is striking that things are going fast in oral care in particular. Fourteen chains with an active acquisition strategy own some 500 practices, out of more than 4,000 in the Netherlands. Half of the recent acquisitions are due to private equity, and I expect further consolidation."

 

FD: Physical therapist and dentist increasingly owned by private equity

Investment companies have made at least 350 acquisitions of Dutch healthcare providers such as dentists, general practitioners and physiotherapists in the last four years. This makes private equity account for more than half of the transactions in the sector. In 2019 they still did 82 deals, last year there were 103. This steady increase is shown in a report by consulting firm JBR.

Caspar van der Geest: "The end is not yet in sight. I see this continuing for years to come, we are in the middle of it now. There is going to be a huge consolidation among independent clinics and laboratories, for example. And many practicing GPs are retiring, cannot find a successor and will therefore opt to sell. Another factor in family medicine is that running your own practice is becoming increasingly complicated and burdensome."

 

Quality: Doing what we promise and continuously working on craftsmanship

Recently, ISO (process) and ACP (substantive consulting) certification were renewed again by an audit by CIIO. This certification provides an externally assessed quality guarantee for our clients. The combination of both certifications not only has practical advantages, but is also in line with our way of working in which we not only do what we promise and have our processes in order, but also continuously work on our craftsmanship.

Iemke Imhof explains: "It is special to experience how CIIO unites both perspectives. CIIO not only tests whether we do what we promise our clients, but also looks at the competencies of our advisors and our learning ability. We notice that the focus during the audit is therefore more on the future:"

Newsletter: Shipping
Maritime & Offshore sector

We believe it is important to share new insights and knowledge with our network. Therefore, we are pleased to send our latest edition of the Global M&A Partners Maritime & Offshore Newsletter with you. This time we have highlighted the theme "Shipping."

In addition, there is an overview of other relevant trends and developments. Together with partners from our international network, Global M&A Partners, we are involved in several realized transactions in the shipping industry. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to receive more information.

We are looking for new people to come and make a difference.

Join our dynamic and ambitious team. You will collaborate on diverse and challenging assignments in the field of corporate acquisitions and strategic advice for entrepreneurial national and international clients, mainly in the private sector.

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