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...However, Baxter closed in September on its $4bn acquisition of Swedish renal business Gambro and that should render savings....
...Dag Andresen will be replaced by a Swedish executive, Marika Fredriksson, who was previously at Gambro, the dialysis products maker, and Volvo Construction Equipment....
...was part of the team from the start, has been involved in deals including the leveraged buyouts of cable operators ComHem and Kabel Baden-Württemberg, as well as the acquisition of healthcare provider Gambro...
...The third senior Swede at Vestas is the new chief financial officer, Marika Fredriksson, a former executive at Volvo, Autoliv and Gambro....
...Looked at one way, Baxter’s agreed $4bn cash acquisition of Swedish dialysis-product maker Gambro appears to be a screaming bargain. The companies expect $300m in annual cost savings by 2017....
...Investor and private equity firm EQT, Gambro’s owners, and Gambro both declined to comment....
...Gambro, based in Lund in southern Sweden, was acquired by the Wallenbergs in 2006 for SKr35bn and subsequently delisted....
...His replacement – Marika Fredriksson, formerly of Gambro and Volvo Construction Equipment – will spend the next two weeks meeting investors around the world with many expecting that Vestas’ balance sheet...
...Lemkau, who advised Gambro on its $4bn sale to Baxter and Skype on its $8.5bn acquisition by Microsoft, will join Gene Sykes as head of the bank’s M&A franchise (Financial Times)....
...The 43-year-old advised the Swedish kidney dialysis specialist Gambro on its sale to Baxter for $4bn last year, as well as advising Skype on its sale to Microsoft for $8.5bn....
...Baxter spent $4bn buying Swedish dialysis-product maker Gambro, but it was the world’s second biggest copper producer that really splashed the cash....
...Gambro in turn is owned by Investor AB and private equity group EQT....
...One of the triggers for changing the rule seems to have been Investor’s takeover of medical products company Gambro last year....
...Just last year, Investor acquired Gambro, the world’s largest maker of kidney dialysis products, for $5.4 billion....
...Sweden’s powerful Wallenberg family on Friday completed its $5.4bn takeover of Gambro, the medical technology group, after more than 90 per cent of shareholders approved the deal....
...DaVita, which provides dialysis services in the US, said on Tuesday it had cancelled its contract with Gambro following a US ban on Gambro’s dialysis equipment over safety concerns....
...last 12 months it sold WM Data, the IT services company, to Logica-CMG, split up Electrolux, the white goods company, sold the rental business of Atlas Copco, the industrial tools company, and delisted Gambro...
...Investor and EQT have a plan for Gambro that will require financing....
...Investor currently holds 19.9 per cent of Gambro’s equity and 26.3 per cent of voting rights....
...It has taken an activist stance in Swedish corporate deals, such as the recent purchase of Gambro, the healthcare company....
...This catapults FMC back to number one in the world’s largest healthcare market, ahead of DaVita, which in December agreed to pay $3bn for the US dialysis clinics of Sweden’s Gambro....
...The CEO is a Swede, former guru at dialysis giant Gambro. Telia (Telco) which was half privatized has half of its introduction value now. It is merged with Finish Sonera....
...Other core holdings, such as banking group SEB, dialysis company Gambro and truckmaker Scania also performed well....
...The sale will be completed in the first half of this year, Gambro said, adding that revenue growth in 2005 would be in line with 2004, around 6 to 8 per cent....
...Gambro's A shares were up 3 per cent at SKr92.5 before trading was halted, while the B shares were 2.9 per cent higher at SKr89.5....
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