F2i, Italy’s largest independent infrastructure fund manager, and DWS, a global infrastructure investor, agreed to acquire Althea Group, an independent provider of technology management services to the European healthcare industry, from Permira, the global private equity firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. "I would like to thank Permira and Silvia Oteri in particular for having consistently supported the creation and development of the Althea Group, which has deeply transformed such an important sector in recent years. I am also convinced that F2i is now the perfect partner to accompany the Group in its next growth chapter, which will lead Althea to further strengthen its role as a partner to hospitals through investments aimed at modernizing biomedical infrastructure supporting the national hospital system," Alessandro Dogliani, Althea CEO.