Jorge Aufiero, one of the main shareholders of Doctor, would have made the decision to retire from the corporate world following long years of management. for their Actionsreceived a specific proposal from the holder of Swiss Medical.
His decision opened a mystery regarding the future of the shares he owns in one of the main private medicine companies in Argentina.
It is estimated that this is 30% of the share capital that the rest of its partners in Medicus and the owner of another of the largest prepaid in the country such as Swiss Medical.
In the case of Hernán Pavlovsky and José De All, the other shareholders of the company that was founded in 1970, have what is known in the market as a “first refusal” to keep Aufiero’s holdings. That term forces the businessman to offer his shares to the other shareholders of the company before being able to leave and sell them to other interested parties.
In this case, Aufiero has already received a specific proposal from Claudio Belocopitt, so now it will be Pavlovsky and De All who will have the last word. Namely, must choose to match the offer of the owner of Swiss Medical or maintain their equity positions and desist from dividing the holdings of their, for now, business partner.
iProfesional tried to know the position of those involved in the operation but there were no answers to the queries.
Medicus has some 300,000 members and a turnover of 30,000 million pesos
Swiss Medical buys out Medicus
With around 300,000 affiliates and an annual turnover of around $30,000 million, Medicus was born in 1971 from the imprint imposed on it by a group of doctors since then.
Prepayment is also owner of five own attention centers; a mental health center; other dental centers and highly complex international coverage.
A couple of years ago, its partners faced a process of exchanging the shares of the sanatoriums from which Aufiero took control of the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment (IADT), while De All did the same with Otamendi.
In this context, market sources assure that they likely traded this trade with Medicus stock that allowed Aufiero to reach 30% of the capital.
It is not the first time that there are versions regarding the sale of the businessman’s shares if one takes into account that in 2016 it was the owners of Osde who analyzed that operation but without the talks coming to fruition.
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Last year, Medicus celebrated his first 50 years of life and during all that time he always was able to adapt, survive and growalways with an eye on the health care of its associates and very attentive to being at the forefront of technology and innovation, not only as a concept, but with investments and concrete actions that confirm the commitment.
Innovation, training and research are three key elements in the company’s day-to-day, values that remain in each new project it undertakes in order to improve the care and services it provides.
The president of Swiss Medical would seek to buy shares in one of the competing companies
For this reason, they currently have Medicus Centers for the exclusive attention of their associates and in which they have been adding Benefits that cover all medical specialtiesdental and mental health, difficult figures in the deck of Argentine prepaid medicine.
Through the use of state-of-the-art technological resources, Medicus has developed and invested in several tools that make it easier for patients to manage their care and the services they require in an agile and personalized way.
