December
2009

Eidos Partners announces the completion of the IPO of TBS Group, European leader in the supply of outsourced, integrated Clinical Engineering services to public and private hospitals and to social healthcare institutions. In addition, TBS Group offers, through its e-Health Systems and Solutions business unit, medical IT services and products and telecare and telemedicine systems. Shareholders of TBS Group are its founders / managers and a broad range of financial and industrial investors, such as Assicurazioni Generali, General Electric, Capitol Health Special Fund and Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
 
In this transaction, Eidos Partners acted as financial advisor to TBS Group, while MPS Capital Services and Intermonte acted as Joint Global Coordinators.
 
The offer involved the sale of 2.5 million of newly-issued shares offered to Italian and foreign institutional investors. The offer price was fixed at Euro 2.5 per share, with an implied market capitalisation of Euro 92 million. The Company intends its listing on the AIM market as a first step leading to a listing on the STAR segment in the next 18-24 months.
 
With the IPO of TBS Group, Eidos Partners completed its seventh IPO on the Italian Stock Exchange in the last 4 years, thus confirming its leadership as an independent financial advisor in the Italian equity capital markets.

 

TBS Group (www.tbsgroupspa.com) is the European leader in the supply of outsourced, integrated Clinical Engineering services and also offers e-Health services and products. TBS Group was created in 1987 and today operates in 10 European countries through 22 subsidiaries, 43 regional operative centres and 328 specifically dedicated laboratories. The Group, which in 2008 had revenues of approximately Euro 155 million, employs approximately 1,400 workers focussed on technical and biomedical devices in over 1,000 hospitals in Europe.

Eidos Partners (www.eidospartners.com) is an independent corporate finance advisory firm focused on the design, definition and realisation of mergers, acquisitions and disposals of companies, on quotations on the stock exchange, on debt advisory services and on corporate financial restructurings. Eidos Partners’ mission is to provide the highest-quality financial and strategic advice to Italian companies, international companies, private equity funds and institutional investors.

For more information about Eidos Partners, please visit www.eidospartners.com

 


Transaction Type
IPO

Market Capitalisation
of the Issuer

Euro 92 million

Sector
Support Services/
Healthcare

Stefano Bellavita
Managing Director
Tel. +39 02 8597 9237
stefano.bellavita@eidospartners.com

Andrea Foti
Vice President
Tel. +39 02 8597 9277
andrea.foti@eidospartners.com

Luigi Cutugno
Associate
Tel. +39 02 8597 9229
luigi.cutugno@eidospartners.com

Giovanni Le Pera
Analyst
Tel. +39 02 8597 9240
giovanni.lepera@eidospartners.com