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Maersk Billionaire Owner Buys Covid-19 Test Maker Unilabs

  • Unilabs may be worth $5 billion, Bloomberg reported last month
  • Purchase marks new entry into healthcare for APM Holding

   

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AP Moller Holding A/S, which invests the wealth of the billionaire Maersk family, has agreed to buy Covid-19 test maker and diagnostics company Unilabs to expand into health care.

APM Holding, whose main asset is a controlling stake in shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, will pay an undisclosed sum to private equity firm Apax Partners, according to a statement on Friday.