Vitru Limited Received Antitrust Clearance for its Business Combination with Unicesumar

FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, April 29, 2022 (Globe NEWSWIRE) — Vitru Constrained, or Vitru (Nasdaq: VTRU), announced that the Typical Superintendence of CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Protection – Brazilian antitrust authority) authorised right now the definitive arrangement for a organization combination beneath which Vitru, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos, Participações e Comércio S.A., will own 100% of the complete share money of CESUMAR – Centro de Ensino Superior de Maringá Ltda, or “Unicesumar”.

The decision is envisioned to be printed in the Official Gazette on May possibly 2, 2022. According to Law No. 12,529/2011, there is an extra 15-day waiting around time period for CADE’s decision to turn out to be closing. Through this period of time, commissioners may well request to further more evaluation the circumstance.

After the waiting around period expires and to the extent no critique is asked for, the business blend can close and we will start off to integrate the routines of Unicesumar with Vitru.

In accordance to the latest INEP higher schooling census introduced in March 2022 by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação), or MEC, Uniasselvi and Unicesumar were being respectively the #1 and #3 fastest-increasing institutions in the Brazilian private electronic training market, amongst 2016 and 2020.

“Since the initial announcement of the transaction, we have been setting up the integration procedure (to the extent permitted by Brazilian antitrust legislation) and with the passage of time, we have turn out to be far more and much more self-assured about the values and beliefs in the electricity of higher-high quality schooling in the life of our learners shared by Vitru and Unicesumar”, said Pedro Graça, CEO of Vitru Limited.

Vitru will update the market on the following milestones: (i) the date when CADE’s decision will become helpful (ii) the expected closing day and (iii) a meeting call to provide extra facts with regards to the integration approach.

About Vitru

Vitru is the leading pure distance finding out schooling group in the postsecondary length learning market in Brazil. By way of its invested firms, Vitru offers a comprehensive pedagogical ecosystem concentrated on hybrid length discovering practical experience for undergraduates and continuing training pupils.

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Vitru’s mission is to democratize accessibility to education in Brazil by means of a electronic ecosystem and empower every single university student to create their personal thriving tale.

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