Sonic Healthcare acquires LADR Laboratory Group
06.03.2025
We advised Sonic Healthcare Group as Polish counsel on its acquisition of LADR Group. Hengeler Mueller acted as Sonic’s lead counsel, and RAUE PartmbB provided regulatory and industry counsel for the transaction.
Sonic Healthcare Group is one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specializing in laboratory medicine/pathology, radiology, and general practice. The transaction involved Sonic’s acquisition of shares in LADR Laboratory Group—one of the top five medical laboratory groups in Germany—with a total value of about EUR 423 million. Our assistance included conducting due diligence on LADR Laboratory Group’s Polish subsidiaries, representing the client before the Polish competition authority, and advising on the transaction documentation.
Our firm’s team was led by Jakub Lerner and Joanna Krakowiak (regulatory) and included contributions from Piotr Ząbkiewicz and Waldemar Oryński (corporate), Andrzej Madała (competition), Radosław Wiśniewski and Karolina Dawidczyk-Bełc (real estate), Lena Marcinoska-Boulangé and Patrycja Gierdal (IP), Karolina Romanowska (GDPR), Anna Kulińska (state aid), Tomasz Pleśniak (employment), Adrianna Ogonowska (environment).