Vitru Limited Received Antitrust Clearance for its Business Combination with Unicesumar

FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, April 29, 2022 (World NEWSWIRE) — Vitru Confined, or Vitru (Nasdaq: VTRU), introduced that the Normal Superintendence of CADE (Administrative Council for Financial Protection – Brazilian antitrust authority) approved nowadays the definitive agreement for a enterprise blend less than which Vitru, as a result of its wholly-owned subsidiary Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos, Participações e Comércio S.A., will personal 100% of the overall share funds of CESUMAR – Centro de Ensino Outstanding de Maringá Ltda, or “Unicesumar”.

The conclusion is anticipated to be published in the Formal Gazette on Might 2, 2022. According to Legislation No. 12,529/2011, there is an more 15-working day waiting period of time for CADE’s choice to turn into ultimate. Throughout this time period, commissioners may possibly request to further more overview the situation.

After the waiting around period of time expires and to the extent no evaluation is asked for, the business enterprise combination can near and we will start out to integrate the actions of Unicesumar with Vitru.

In accordance to the most current INEP increased instruction census introduced in March 2022 by the Brazilian Ministry of Schooling (Ministério da Educação), or MEC, Uniasselvi and Unicesumar were being respectively the #1 and #3 quickest-growing institutions in the Brazilian private digital instruction current market, in between 2016 and 2020.

“Since the initial announcement of the transaction, we have been planning the integration approach (to the extent permitted by Brazilian antitrust regulation) and with the passage of time, we have turn into more and far more confident about the values and beliefs in the ability of higher-high-quality education and learning in the life of our learners shared by Vitru and Unicesumar”, said Pedro Graça, CEO of Vitru Limited.

Vitru will update the current market on the next milestones: (i) the date when CADE’s determination gets to be successful (ii) the predicted closing day and (iii) a meeting phone to present additional information and facts relating to the integration process.

About Vitru

Vitru is the top pure distance understanding education group in the postsecondary distance learning market place in Brazil. By its invested providers, Vitru provides a entire pedagogical ecosystem centered on hybrid distance mastering knowledge for undergraduates and continuing education pupils.

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Vitru’s mission is to democratize obtain to education and learning in Brazil by way of a electronic ecosystem and empower each college student to create their have effective tale.

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Speak to: Call: Maria Carolina F. Gonçalves, IRO e-mail: [email protected] web-site: https://buyers.vitru.com.br/