Nordhaven advised Max Manus' owners and management on the sale to Conscriptor

22 apr 2020

Nordhaven acted as exclusive financial advisor to the Management and Owners of Max Manus AS, Max Manus AB and Max Manus A/S in the sale of its cross Scandinavian business to Conscriptor, a Verdane backed company.

The acquisition enables a leading provider of digital solutions within speech recognition, documentation and transcription services to the Nordic health care industry, to increase the work efficiency of health personnel and free more time for direct patient care.

Max Manus Group is the leading Scandinavian distributor of speech recognition solutions for healthcare professionals, providing customized speech recognition and digital dictation solutions to hospitals in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Max Manus’ operational business is structured through the companies, Max Manus AS (Norway), Max Manus AB (Sweden) and Max Manus A/S (Denmark). The companies have historically not been consolidated, which has caused certain transactional obstacles for Management and Nordhaven to overcome.

“The spread of COVID-19 has increased the load on the healthcare system in all the Nordic countries. Efficient digital solutions as we provide, contribute to increase the capacity and therefore increase the ability to handle crisis situations. We see great opportunities going forward to help the healthcare system further free capacity, and at the same time relieve health care personnel which experience pressured working environments, also under more normal circumstances than what we have today” – Martin Elster, CEO Max Manus.

“We aim to be the Nordic-leader in liberate healthcare personnel’s time for direct patient care. Today, only 30% of healthcare personnel’s time is used on direct patient supervision. Our ambition is to double time for direct patient supervision from today’s levels by supplying transcription and speech recognition solutions. Specifically, this relates to enabling digitalization and usage of AI technology” – Henric Carlsson, CEO Conscriptor.

“There is a potential for an increase in efficiency in the Nordic healthcare sector, and we believe that administration and process handling will be further digitalized. We believe that Max Manus and Conscriptor possess the knowledge and solutions within documentation and transcription that will contribute to fundamental changes of administrative processes in the healthcare sector. The solutions will at the same time liberate time for direct patient care for doctors and other healthcare personnel” – Bjarne Lie, Managing Partner Verdane.

About Verdane

Verdane is a specialized growth investor cooperating and investing in ambitious, Northern European, technology companies, supporting further international growth. With a total of more than NOK 17 billion of committed capital, Verdane funds have invested in more than 120 companies in the growth sectors, including high-tech industrials, e-commerce, software, energy- and resource-efficiency and financial services. Verdane has more than 50 employees and offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm.

About Conscriptor

Conscriptor is Sweden’s largest supplier of journal documentation services and dictation solutions for hospitals and clinics. Conscriptor was founded in 2006 in Orust, Sweden and today employs more than 200 people. Conscriptor is behind, amongst others, Europe’s most popular dictation app within the health care sector, MedSpeech, and today handles approximately 10% of all journal documentation in Sweden.

About Max Manus

Established in 1946 by the Norwegian WWII hero Max Manus, the company initially sold office supplies, however developed to be a leading provider of speech recognition and dictation solutions in Scandinavia. Their speech recognition solution is currently used by more than 10,000 healthcare professionals and the digital dictation platform has over 20,000 users. Today Max Manus is present in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and have more than 50 employees located in their offices in Oslo, Århus, Copenhagen and Gothenburg.

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