Mid Europa Partners completes CM LIM acquisition and announces LUX MED's acquisition of Promedis, further consolidating Polish healthcare market.

Mid Europa Partners announced that it has completed the acquisition of 100% of Centrum Medyczne LIM Sp. z o.o. from its founders. Separately, Mid Europa Partners' portfolio company LUX MED announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Promedis.

Matthew Strassberg, who is responsible for Mid Europa's Polish healthcare platform commented: "The closing of CM LIM and the simultaneous announcement by LUX MED of the agreement to acquire Promedis represent a further milestone in our year-long process of consolidating the Polish healthcare market. These investments will further bolster the platform's ability to offer the full range of out-patient and day-surgery services to patients throughout the country. On a pro-forma basis, the platform will operate 57 own-branded clinics, 23 captive clinics and provide approximately 930,000 subscribers access to a network of approximately 900 affiliated private providers."

Anna Rulkiewicz, CEO of LUX MED and Medycyna Rodzinna added: "We look forward to working with the excellent and highly professional teams at CM LIM and Promedis to develop a common strategy based on an integrated product offering supported by the investment in new clinics and a common back-office and IT infrastructure".

Michelle Capiod, Pawel Padusinski and Jan Krzewinski executed the CM LIM transaction and supported the LUX MED management team in executing the Promedis investment. Mid Europa and LUX MED were advised by Linklaters and PwC.

For further information, please contact:

Mid Europa Partners:
Matthew Strassberg
+44 (0) 20 7886 3628
Michelle Capiod
+44 (0) 20 7886 3611
Pawel Padusinski
+48 (22) 540 7122

CITIGATE
David Westover/Agnès Riousse
+44 (0) 20 7638 9571

LUX MED and Medycyna Rodzinna:
Anna Rulkiewicz, CEO
+48 (22) 322 7040

Notes to the editors:

About Mid Europa Partners

Mid Europa Partners is the largest private equity firm investing in Central and Eastern Europe. Operating from London, Budapest and Warsaw, Mid Europa Partners advises and manages funds with committed capital of approximately €3 billion. The Mid Europa Partners team has been investing in Central and Eastern Europe since 1999.

Mid Europa Partners has made investments in twenty companies located in fourteen countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Mid Europa Partners employs an active, hands-on investment approach and applies the sector knowledge and operating experience of its people to deliver long-term value creation together with the management teams of portfolio companies.

For additional information on Mid Europa Partners please visit: www.mideuropa.com

About the Companies:

In October 2007 Mid Europa acquired 100% of LUX MED, and Medycyna Rodzinna, respectively the second and the sixth largest private healthcare providers in Poland.

LUX MED offers comprehensive outpatient medical care and diagnostic services to corporate and individual subscribers. The Company, which serves over 280,000 subscribers, operates a network of 15 branded clinics located in the largest Polish cities and cooperates with over 650 affiliated private providers throughout Poland.

Medycyna Rodzinna, serving 350,000 patients through 17 clinics, operates the largest network of clinics in Poland, cooperating with over 650 network providers. Through AVI, Medycyna Rodzinna also has an important presence in the rapidly expanding diagnostic services business.

CM LIM is the third largest - in revenue terms - private healthcare provider in Poland offering comprehensive outpatient medical care and diagnostic services to corporate subscribers and individual patients. The Company, which serves over 230,000 corporate and individual patients, operates a network of 15 branded clinics located in the largest Polish cities and cooperates with over 300 affiliated private providers throughout Poland.

Promedis is a mid-size player on the Polish healthcare market offering outpatient medical care services to corporate subscribers and individual patients. The Company, which serves over 70,000 corporate and individual patients, operates a network of 10 branded clinics located primarily in Western and South-western Poland, cooperating with over 500 affiliated private providers throughout Poland.

For additional information on the individual companies visit: www.luxmed.pl, www.medycynarodzinna.pl, www.cm-lim.com.pl and www.promedis.pl