Aston Lark acquires Healthwise Group

Second healthcare purchase of the year

Hemma Visavadia
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Aston Lark has acquired Healthwise Group, its second healthcare acquisition of 2022, for an undisclosed amount.

Founded in 1993 and based in Dudley in the West Midlands, Healthwise provides a range of health insurance cover for employers and individuals, group protection - including critical illness, income protection and death in service cover - and other employee benefits solutions, currently led by Paul Swanson and Bob Grindley. Aston Lark, which is currently backed by Goldman Sachs but is soon to be acquired by Howden Group, said the acquisition falls in line with the group's strategy to expand its reach within the employee benefits sphere. Paul Swanson, commercial director of Healthwise, e...

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