MUNICH (dpa-AFX) - Financial investor Cinven wants to take over Europe's largest laboratory services provider Synlab completely for ten euros per share. A corresponding offer was published on Friday by the holding company Ephios Luxembourg S.à r.l., which is linked to the financial investor Cinven. Synlab had already mentioned ten euros as a possible price after an initial expression of interest in March. Cinven is already a major shareholder and holds around 43 percent of Synlab shares.

The investor has already secured access to further shares and already has access to almost 80 percent of the shares. The offer values the SDax company Synlab at around 2.2 billion euros.

Investors had recently lost faith in a bid. The share price had fallen back from 10 euros in May - the level Synlab had already indexed in March in a possible bid - to almost eight euros. Cinven had brought Synlab to the stock exchange only in spring 2021. At the time, the issue price was 18 euros, valuing the company at around four billion euros./jcf/zb