{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/40/private-equity-roll-ups-of-medical-device-distributors-leave", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 40, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/40/private-equity-roll-ups-of-medical-device-distributors-leave", "kind": "update", "summary": "Private-equity roll-ups of medical device distributors leave thousands of orphaned EU registrations. A sale is usually when they get fixed.", "details": ["45% of large EU distributors have a national registration with no matching EUDAMED record, so a mismatch alone is normal.", "In Belgium, PE roll-ups account for 48,652 notifications left pointing at companies merged away. Every other case combined accounts for 103.", "Nobody pays to clean them up until a sale, an absorption or an insolvency forces it."], "links": [], "tags": ["eudamed", "mdr", "medical-devices", "regulatory-data"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-01T20:45:00.702121Z", "edited": "2026-10-02T05:21:37.631428Z"}}