Global Media Santé has been acquired by SFP Expansion

October 2020 — Global Media Santé’s CEO, Alain Trébucq, and Apax Partners have sold the company to SFP Expansion Group.

Global Media Santé is an information and training company dedicated to health professionals. It publishes print and digital medical content addressed to doctors as well as medical students and other health professionals. Its prestigious trademarks include La Revue du Praticien, Le Concours Médical and Egora Le Panorama du Médecin. It also provides e-learning modules falling within French doctors’ mandatory continuing professional development. The strength of its business model relies on the diversity of its revenue sources: reader subscriptions, advertising and e-learning.

SFP Expansion Group, via its company Santé Formapro, is a provider of continuing professional development content for health professionals. Its 10,000-yearly e-learning lessons address doctors, nurses and physiotherapists.

Apax Partners is a leading European private equity firm. With more than 45 years of experience, it provides long-term equity funding to build and strengthen world-class companies. Funds managed and advised by Apax Partners exceed US$4 billion. These funds invest in fast-growing middle-market companies across four sectors: TMT, consumer, healthcare and services.

Our role in the transaction

Oaklins’ team in France acted as sell-side financial advisor to Global Media Santé’s CEO and Apax Partners in this transaction.