Curis Alliance launches as the leading European healthcare strategy consulting network
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Barcelona, London, Munich, 21 September 2022
Antares, Mansfield, and WMC are pleased to announce the formation of Curis, an alliance of the leading independent healthcare strategy consulting firms in Europe
Antares Consulting S.L. (“Antares”), Mansfield Advisors LLP (“Mansfield”), and WMC Healthcare GmbH (“WMC”) announce the launch of Curis Alliance, a new network of independent healthcare-focused strategy consulting firms combining country and sector expertise with best practice to serve clients better.
Curis already has a track record of advising clients across multiple geographies and a shared culture focussed on quality of analysis and investing in its people and is focussed on:
• Offering clients access to 200 consultants in 10 countries with 9 offices and over 15 languages
• Delivering actionable insights for clients by combining a 100% focus on healthcare across different markets with local knowledge and on the ground presence
• Working for public and private companies and investors, helping them buy, sell and grow businesses, as well as for governments and regulators
• Advising on commercial due diligence and corporate strategy by combining research, benchmarking, modelling and analysis with clinical, scientific and operational knowledge
Joan Barrubés, Founder and Partner of Antares, said:
“Antares Consulting has been advising healthcare clients for nearly 25 years and Curis Alliance offers us the opportunity to strength a unique European network of specialised healthcare consulting firms, combining the deep local market knowledge from all our partners and our capabilities to understand the global healthcare challenges.”
Henry Elphick, Chair of Mansfield, said:
“Healthcare investors and the companies they invest in are increasingly international if not global. This exciting alliance with the leading independent healthcare strategy consulting firms in Europe is a step change in our capability – it immediately allows us to deliver better advice to our clients across more sub sectors and geographies”
Christian Eckert, Managing Director of WMC, said:
“In our initial joint projects for international investors we have had very positive feedback which gives us confidence that this alliance already delivers value. Our three companies have a very similar legacy and way of working. Therefore, we are looking forward to further cross-border cooperation in the UK, Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium and, of course, Germany.”
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For further information please contact:
Curis Alliance
Max Taylor Tel: +44 7703 810092
max.taylor@mansfieldadvisors.com
Notes to Editors
About Curis
Curis is the Latin for healthcare. It is an alliance of firms that share the same values of transparency, curiosity, collaboration, and commerciality, and it is the relentless focus solely on healthcare and our sector expertise that sets us apart.
We cover healthcare, including services, insurance, policy, social care, and education; life sciences, including diagnostics and medical technology; pharma, including manufacturing and services, and veterinary.
Whilst each firm retains brand independence and its own legal entity, they operate as the Curis Alliance on cross-border and cross-capability opportunities to serve clients better.
For more information visit www.curisalliance.com
About Antares Consulting
Antares Consulting is an international consulting firm specialised in the field of healthcare, life sciences, and social care.
With over 25 consultants, the Antares team allow clients to access specialised expertise with 32% of the team having healthcare qualifications (for example in pharmacy and biotechnology), 35% management and business administration qualifications and 12% are medically qualified.
Antares has worked with over 800 clients in 27 different countries, focusing on Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Andorra. Additional projects have been undertaken in South America (Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic) and Africa (Algeria, Angola, Gabon, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Cameroon).
Founded in 1998 by former Cap Gemini consultants, Antares has offices in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; and La Paz, Bolivia.
For more information visit www.antares-consulting.com
About Mansfield Advisors
Mansfield is a strategy consulting firm exclusively focussed on the healthcare, social care, education, life sciences, pharma and veterinary markets. The firm is ranked one of the leading healthcare and life sciences management consultants by the Financial Times and a Firsthand Vault top 20 EMEA consulting firm.
With over 25 consultants include scientists, medical doctors, dentists and vets, the team is also supported by Senior Advisors with specific operational and market expertise.
Mansfield work for public and private companies and investors, helping them buy, sell and grow businesses, as well as for governments and regulators. They advise on commercial due diligence and corporate strategy by combining research, benchmarking, modelling and analysis with clinical, scientific and operational knowledge.
Founded in 2013 by two former McKinsey & Company consultants, the firm is based in London on the King’s Fund Health Campus off Harley Street in the heart of healthcare London.
For more information visit www.mansfieldadvisors.com
About WMC Healthcare
WMC Healthcare is the leading management consultancy specializing in healthcare and life sciences in German-speaking countries.
With over 150 specialists the WMC Healthcare team is very well positioned to address all the issues healthcare providers and investors are facing – from strategic positioning, to growing cost burdens and innovation. The WMC team consists of (health) economists, medical doctors, nurses, medical controllers (clinical coders), and life scientists. In addition, WMC’s highly qualified consultants have in-depth experience with payors as well as medical technology and pharmaceuticals.
WMC strategy consultants supports institutional and private equity investors to define and validate their market strategy for investments in healthcare. They are also market leaders in operational consulting, developing and delivering organisational restructuring, increasing innovation and implementing digitalisation programs for healthcare provider organisations of all sizes and ownerships.
Founded in 2013 by two former McKinsey & Company consultant, the firm is based in Munich and also has offices in Hamburg and Dusseldorf.
For more information visit www.wmc-healthcare.de