​AKD assisted the shareholders of 4Dental Holding N.V. in the sale of their shares to Curaeos B.V. (owned by Swedish private equity fund EQT).

4Dental
4Dental Tandtechniek resulted from a merger in 2005 of four renowned dental labs and offers clinical services and digital workflow for implantology. Its product range includes crowns, bridges, dentures and anti-snoring devices sold to dentists, orthodontists and dental surgeons. 4Dental also offers a wide range of dental products using modern CAD/CAM technology. The company has approximately 300 employees in the Netherlands and more than 700 employees in, amongst other countries, Thailand. For more information about 4Dental: www.4dental.nl (Dutch only).

Curaeos
Curaeos is owned by Swedish private equity fund EQT and the parent company of a rapidly growing dental platform with a broad range of activities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Italy. It is Europe's biggest player in the dental market and serves its customers with various brands through a vertically integrated business model. For more information about DentConnect (operating company of Curaeos), see www.dentconnect.eu

The AKD team is led by Nathalie van Woerkom and Selma Baouch. Robert Jean Kloprogge advised on the tax aspects of this transaction. 

YES Corporate Finance assisted the vendors as corporate finance adviser. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted as the purchaser's legal counsel. Van Oers assisted the purchaser as corporate finance adviser.