ORIX Invests in Major Medical Equipment Sales Company Apex Holdings

TOKYO, Japan – March 31, 2025 – ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”) announced today that it has acquired all the shares of Apex Holdings Co., Ltd. (“ApexHD”), a major medical equipment sales company.

ApexHD forms a group of four operating companies centered around Apex Co., Ltd., and sells medical equipment used in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, mainly heart disease, one of the three major diseases among Japanese people. ApexHD has many specialists with extensive experience and expertise in the cardiovascular field, which requires a high degree of specialty. It has earned strong trust from customers of major medical institutions such as university hospitals as well as national and public hospitals, mainly in the Kanto and Tokai regions.

ORIX has positioned healthcare as one of its key focus areas for business investment in Japan. In 2015, it acquired all shares of INNOMEDICS Medical Instruments Inc.^*, a comprehensive medical equipment sales company operating primarily in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and in 2023, all shares of Dynamedic Japan Inc., a medical equipment sales company in the cardiovascular field specializing in arrhythmia. Through this latest investment, ORIX aims to expand its business fields in the medical equipment business area while promoting mutual cooperation in procurement and sales and marketing networks between its existing portfolio companies and ApexHD. ORIX will be forming a group of medical equipment sales companies with a robust foundation.

ORIX will continue to draw on its accumulated experience and expertise in business investment to support the business growth of companies and contribute to the further advancement of the medical equipment sales industry, one of the backbones of the medical industry in Japan.

* ORIX Announces Capital Participation in Medical Equipment Sales Company INNOMEDICS (December 12, 2014)

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ORIX Group (ORIX Corporation TSE: 8591; NYSE: IX) was established in 1964 and has grown from its roots in leasing in Japan to become a global, diverse, and unique corporate group. Today, it is active around the world in financing and investment, life insurance, banking, asset management, real estate, concession, environment and energy, automobile-related services, industrial/ICT equipment, ships and aircraft. Since expanding outside of Japan in 1971, ORIX Group has grown its business globally and now operates in around 30 countries and regions across the world with approximately 34,000 people. ORIX Group unites globally around its Purpose: “Finding Paths. Making Impact.” combining diverse expertise and innovative thinking to help our world develop in a sustainable way.
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