Houlihan Lokey Advises Miura Partners

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Miura Partners, a leading middle-market Spanish private equity investor, has acquired HealthTech Bio Actives (HTBA), a global natural ingredients company, from The Riverside Co. The transaction was closed in December 2024.

Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, HTBA is a science-based global leader specialised in the development, production, and commercialisation of natural ingredients, such as citrus flavonoids, and Europe’s leading provider of active vitamin B12 forms for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food and beverage, and animal nutrition sectors. HTBA has developed sustainable processes for more than 40 years to create high-value, naturally derived ingredients that support the health of people and animals while protecting the environment. It is a globally diversified business, operating from its state-of-the-art manufacturing site in Murcia (Spain) and operations centre in Cincinnati (Ohio, U.S.), selling its products to more than 60 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.

Also headquartered in Barcelona, Miura Partners is a leading Spanish middle-market private equity investor focused on small and medium-sized family-owned and entrepreneurial companies. Miura Partners provides attractive growth and innovation plans with a clear focus on sustainability and internationalization. The firm currently manages assets exceeding €1.5 billion and has completed more than 80 investments worth over €4.0 billion since its inception in 2008.

Houlihan Lokey acted as the exclusive M&A buyside advisor to Miura Partners. This transaction underscores Houlihan Lokey’s market-leading position advising Spanish middle-market consumer companies and further enhances Houlihan Lokey’s sector leadership in the global specialty ingredients sector following successful transactions involving Ellison Bakery, Bluegrass Ingredients, Salpa, Hi-Food, Revela Foods, Volac, Parker Food Group, Anastasi, Javo, Deerland, First Choice Ingredients, Florida Food Products, FONA International, Ungerer & Co., International Dehydrated Foods, TIC Gums, among others.

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