Blätt­chen & Part­ner advi­ses the manage­ment of Karo Health­ca­re

Munich, April 14, 2025 — Blätt­chen & Part­ner has advi­sed the manage­ment team of Karo Health­ca­re on the sale to funds mana­ged by KKR.

Karo Health­ca­re (“Karo”) a lea­ding Pan-Euro­pean Con­su­mer health plat­form will chan­ge owner­ship fol­lo­wing the announce­ment that EQT has agreed to sell Karo to funds mana­ged by KKR, a lea­ding glo­bal invest­ment firm. The tran­sac­tion marks a signi­fi­cant mile­stone in Karo’s jour­ney, fol­lo­wing a peri­od of rapid trans­for­ma­ti­on, geo­gra­phic expan­si­on, and stra­te­gic port­fo­lio deve­lo­p­ment.

The tran­sac­tion is sub­ject to cus­to­ma­ry regu­la­to­ry con­di­ti­ons and appr­ovals and is expec­ted to clo­se in the coming months. The finan­cial details of the tran­sac­tion were kept con­fi­den­ti­al by the par­ties.

Blätt­chen & Part­ner advi­sed the manage­ment of Karo around the CEO Chris­toff­er Loren­zen on the manage­ment par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­gram.

About Karo Health­ca­re

Karo is a lea­ding pan-Euro­pean con­su­mer health­ca­re com­pa­ny head­quar­te­red in Stock­holm, Swe­den. The Com­pa­ny ope­ra­tes an attrac­ti­ve pro­duct port­fo­lio span­ning core cate­go­ries such as Skin Health, Foot Health, and Inti­ma­te Health, as well as Diges­ti­ve Health and Vit­amins, Mine­rals & Sup­ple­ments. During the past five years, Karo has sca­led sub­stan­ti­al­ly, qua­dru­pling in sales, buil­ding lea­ding digi­tal capa­bi­li­ties and estab­li­shing mar­ket pre­sence to reach con­su­mers in more than 90 count­ries with top brand posi­ti­ons across Euro­pean mar­kets. Karo employs about 470 peo­p­le who work out of Karo’s 13 inter­na­tio­nal hubs.

About Blätt­chen & Part­ner

Blätt­chen & Part­ner has more than 25 years of exper­ti­se in advi­sing and imple­men­ting manage­ment and employee par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­grams in the con­text of pri­va­te equi­ty tran­sac­tions, but also for lis­ted and fami­ly-run com­pa­nies as well as foun­da­ti­ons and fami­ly offices. In addi­ti­on, Blätt­chen & Part­ner sup­ports the design of exe­cu­ti­ve com­pen­sa­ti­on models and acts as a com­pen­sa­ti­on expert for lis­ted cor­po­ra­ti­ons.

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