Corin Orthopaedics Holdings was no slouch in the press and PR department, especially in the early years of the new millennium, when its financial and hip and knee product news churn was often hard to keep up with. That changed in late 2012, when a consortium of private equity investors, based mainly in Italy, set up the 2IL Orthopaedics vehicle to buy Corin for £30.5 million ($48 million). Corin then largely went under the radar and out of public view.
There was the odd news feed about big M&A (Tornier, among others), however, and the group kept growing its revenues...