Small Bone Innovations, Inc. to Acquire S.T.A.R. Total Ankle Replacement Technology

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), a single-source provider of innovation, products, technology and education for the small bone & joint sector of the orthopedics industry, has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Link America, Inc., d/b/a LINK® Orthopaedics, The Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement system, known as the ‘S.T.A.R.® Ankle’, and certain assets related to the S.T.A.R. Ankle from Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG of Hamburg, Germany (‘Waldemar Link’). The value of the transaction is not being disclosed. The acquisition is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions. Both companies are privately held. Outside North America, both Waldemar Link and SBi are committed to continue to provide the highest level of service to all customers throughout the existing global distribution network. The S.T.A.R. Ankle is manufactured by Waldemar Link, and was first designed as an anatomic non-constrained, resurfacing prosthesis in 1978 by Hakon Kofoed, MD, President Elect of the European Foot & Ankle Society and Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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