6.4.2017

Eurofins – Acquisition of Ahma Ympäristö

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Mergers & Acquisitions

We advised Eurofins Scientific, the global leader in food and environment testing, in its acquisition of Ahma ympäristö Oy, the second-largest environment testing laboratory in Finland. The company employs 104 staff at its three main sites in Finland. The company generated revenues in excess of EUR 7m in 2016.

Eurofins Scientific Group is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for agroscience, genomics, discovery pharmacology and for support of clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA. Eurofins has a staff of over 27,000 in 310 laboratories in 39 countries. Eurofins Scientific is listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange.

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