DunPort are delighted to announce that we have supported Schivo Medical in it’s acquisition of APN Inc. Schivo, which is headquartered in Waterford, is a leading OEM Contract Manufacturer in the Invasive Surgical and Life Sciences space. Alongside Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking, DunPort provided acquisition funding for the deal and we look forward to working with the Schivo management team and shareholders over the coming years.
Addleshaw Goddard provided legal advice to DunPort on the transaction.
Schivo Medical is the 7th company to have been supported by the Oak Corporate Credit Fund, DunPort’s €335m lending vehicle, the successor to the Elm Corporate Credit Fund, which supported 32 borrowers across the UK and Ireland. DunPort is one of the leading providers of mid-market and lower mid-market private debt solutions in Ireland and the UK.
About Schivo
Schivo is an OEM Contract Manufacturing partner with over 50 years of experience in the manufacturing, assembly, and testing of complex devices, & instruments for global leaders in the Minimally Invasive Surgical and Life Sciences spaces.
Schivo is a vertically integrated contract manufacturer with complex and micro-machining capabilities, 5 – Axis milling, laser cutting, welding, metal fabrication, and clean room assembly of electro-mechanical devices. Other services include packaging, validation, and verification, of life-enhancing instruments.
Schivo manufactures, assembles, and delivers prototypes and finished devices for the Medical Device and Life Sciences markets. Serving as a natural extension of their development team, we partner with industry leaders and innovators in addressing their unique engineering challenges, creating innovative manufacturing processes, and supporting them at every step, from concept to commercial launch, to help bring their technologies to market.
APN Global is a recognized leader in proprietary AFP valves, fittings, and tubing technologies for analytical instrumentation and Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) devices leveraging the latest in industry 4.0 technologies incorporating autonomous robotics and fully closed-loop manufacturing. Consistent with our strategy, the combination with APN further increases Schivo’s ability to offer complete solutions for complex MIS and analytical instrumentation systems in high-growth markets.
