Dedalus holding, controlled by Ardian, submits a firm offer to AFGA- Geveart group to buy part of its healthcare software business and enters into an exclusivity agreement for the acquisition

The Business, which generates around 260 million Euro of revenues, consists of the Healthcare Information Solutions and Integrated Care activities, as well as the Imaging IT activities to the extent that these activities are tightly integrated into the Healthcare Information Solutions activities. This is the case mainly in the DACH region, France and Brazil.    

With a total turnover of 470 million Euro, the transaction would create the European leader in the healthcare software sector with a focus on the hospital segment. The combined group would have a presence in over 30 countries and would hold a leadership position in Italy, Germany and France.

"The acquisition would give an important boost to the European consolidation of the hospital software sector" - says Giorgio Moretti, Chairman of Dedalus Holding. "The need to have a European operator in a sector with very high R&D investments is a guarantee for the entire European healthcare system to be able to count on products and technologies that have now become essential to reduce clinical risk, increase the quality of care and service to the patient and optimize the growing costs for taxpayers, due to the many factors that are putting the budgets of all countries under financial stress. It would be a transaction that would create the pan-European leader in the healthcare software sector and with a focus in the three largest countries of continental Europe. The group would have about 3,500 employees and the competences to develop an innovative platform of products for an industry which needs to improve efficiency and integrated solutions”. 

"We invested in Dedalus in 2016 to accelerate the growth of the company in Europe starting from France, since we knew that the group had all the characteristics to be able to compete successfully in its sector on a global scale", declares Yann Chareton, Managing Director of Ardian Buyout in Italy. "Dedalus' role in the consolidation process of the clinical software industry in Europe will enable the creation of a player able to compete internationally in a business, which is critical for citizens and countries. This acquisition in the healthcare technology space underpins ARDIAN’s strategy to support transitions of companies into undisputed leaders in their respective markets, widening their offering and geographic reach with transformational build-ups."