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LeMaitre Vascular

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LeMaitre Vascular
Company typePublic
IndustryMedical device
FoundedJanuary 15, 1986; 38 years ago (1986-01-15) in Burlington, Massachusetts
Founders
HeadquartersBurlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
George W. LeMaitre, Chairman and CEO
Joseph P. Pellegrino Jr., CFO
David B. Roberts, President
Increase US$36.4.million (2022)[1]
Increase US$6.04 million (2022)[1]
Total assetsIncrease US$292.45 million (2022)[1]
Total equityIncrease US$254.15 million (2022)[1]
Number of employees
1,167[1] (2022)
Websitewww.lemaitre.com

LeMaitre Vascular is an American medical device company established in 1986 by vascular surgeon George D. LeMaitre, and based in Burlington, Massachusetts,[2] which provides devices, implants and human tissue cryopreservation services used by surgeons in the treatment of vascular conditions, particularly peripheral vascular disease.[3][4] As of 2022, LeMaitre Vascular sells directly to hospitals in 25 countries and through distributors in more than 70 countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific Rim.[5]

History

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Origin

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The company's founder, George D. LeMaitre, M.D., was a practicing vascular surgeon in Massachusetts, chief of surgery at Lawrence General Hospital,[6][7] and a clinical instructor at his alma mater, the Tufts University School of Medicine.[8] In 1981, LeMaitre treated an elderly colleague who required a procedure to reroute blood flow in his leg in order to avoid a potential amputation.[2] LeMaitre found it necessary to develop a valvulotome to enable the procedure.[2] Unsatisfied with the options that were available to him, LeMaitre worked with an engineer to design a new device himself. His first patented valvulotome could be used by a surgeon to cut valves in peripheral veins without the requirement of direct vision.[9] As a result, the surgeon could prepare veins for arterial bypass with smaller incisions and less tissue trauma.[10]

LeMaitre succeeded in treating the patient with this invention, leading to further efforts to improve the technology between 1981 and 1984.[2] LeMaitre was so pleased with the success of this new device that he spent the next two years attempting to interest medical product companies in producing it.[2] When none agreed to do so, he mortgaged his house and started his own company in 1986 to introduce the LeMaitre Valvulotome to his colleagues. That same year, the invention was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.[2]

Growth and development

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Following LeMaitre's incorporation of the company, LeMaitre's son, George W. LeMaitre, joined the company and helped grow it from a family-owned company to a publicly held global corporation.[2] In 1996, LeMaitre Vascular introduced the expandable LeMaitre valvulotome, which superseded the original circular-blade LeMaitre valvulotomes.[11] After raising $3 million from investors in 1998, the senior LeMaitre decided to seek investments from other vascular surgeons. By 2004, when George D. LeMaitre stepped down as chair of the Board of Directors,[8] the company had operations and facilities in Sulzbach, Germany, Phoenix, Arizona, St. Petersburg, Florida, Brymbo, Wales and beginning that year in Tokyo, Japan.[2] Later in 2004, the company adopted a lean manufacturing approach to speed product production, and a 2005 profile described LeMaitre Vascular as a $30.5 million company with about 200 employees and "reporting explosive growth".[2] By 2005, LeMaitre himself was noted as being "semiretired" from LeMaitre Vascular, and "focused on a second career in writing".[2] In 2006, the company prepared an initial public offering of 6 million common shares, planned to be priced between $8 and $10 per share.[12] In the late 2000s, LeMaitre had a distribution deal with California-based vascular products company Endologix, which the latter bought out in 2011.[4] George D. LeMaitre died in 2018.[8]

As of 2022, LeMaitre Vascular has continued to develop, manufacture and market disposable and implantable vascular devices for use in both open vascular surgeries and minimally invasive procedures. LeMaitre Vascular's product portfolio has continued to grow as a result of the company's research and subsequent development of new vascular devices, including its most recent generation of LeMaitre's original valvulotome.[13] The company has also expanded through various acquisitions. LeMaitre acquired Applied Medical's vascular clot management business for $14.2 million in 2018, and the biologic patch business of Admedus for $15.5 million in October 2019.[14][15] In mid-2020, the company acquired vascular graft-maker Artegraft for $90 million, anticipating that the newly acquired product lines would be a substantial proportion of LeMaitre's U.S. sales going forward.[16]

Products and acquisitions

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Product lines

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As of 2005, the company was noted to have obtained a quarter of its revenues from sales of valvulotomes, with other products including "embolectomy catheters, carotid shunts, and radiopaque tape".[2] As of 2022, the company delineated its 13 product lines into six categories:

Acquisitions

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Since its establishment, LeMaitre Vascular has also made acquisitions of product lines obtained by purchasing the line from other companies, or through purchasing another company in its entirety. These include:

LeMaitre Vascular acquisitions[14]
Year Acquisition Key products and services
1998 Whittaker Screen Printing Radiopaque tape manufacturing operations
1999 Vermed Embolectomy catheters
2001 Ideas for Medicine Carotid shunts, balloon catheters, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy devices
2003 Credent Polycarbonate grafts
2004 VCS Clip Vessel closure systems
2005 Endomed Stent grafts
2007 Vascular Innovations Contrast injector
2007 Vascular Architects Remote endarterectomy devices
2007 UnBalloon Stent graft modeling catheters
2007 Biomateriali Polyester grafts and patches
2010 LifeSpan[17] ePTFE grafts
2012 XenoSure Biologic patches
2013 Clinical Instruments Carotid shunts and embolectomy catheters
2013 TRIVEX Powered phlebectomy system
2014 Xenotis Pty Ltd Biosynthetic grafts
2014 PeriVu Angioscopes
2015 Tru-Incise (Eze-Sit) OUS Valve cutters
2016 ProCol Biologic grafts
2016 RestoreFlow Human tissue cryopreservation services
2018 Syntel and Python Embolectomy catheters
2018 Cardial Polyester grafts, valvulotomes, surgical glue
2019 Tru-Incise (Eze-Sit) US Valve cutters
2019 CardioCel and VascuCel[15] Biologic patches
2020 Artegraft[16] Vascular graft production

Subsidiaries

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Over the history of its growth, LeMaitre Vascular has established a number of domestic and foreign subsidiaries to carry out its business nationally and internationally.[18]

LeMaitre Vascular U.S. subsidiaries[18]
Subsidiary Place of incorporation
LeMaitre UK Acquisition LLC Delaware
LeMaitre Acquisition LLC Delaware
Vascutech Acquisition LLC Delaware
LeMaitre Vascular non-U.S. subsidiaries[18]
Subsidiary Place of incorporation
Biomateriali S.r.l. Italy
LeMaitre Vascular GmbH Germany
LeMaitre Vascular GK Japan
LeMaitre Vascular SAS France
LeMaitre Vascular Spain, S.L. Spain
LeMaitre Vascular S.r.l. Italy

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. - Form 10-Q". www.sec.gov. March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Joyce Pellino Crane, "Surgeon's idea and persistence gave rise to $30.5m company", The Boston Globe (November 17, 2005), p. NW-8.
  3. ^ Laundon, Tyler. "Top Picks 2020: LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT)". Top Picks 2020: LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT).
  4. ^ a b "LeMaitre Vascular distribution deal ends", The Boston Globe (July 20, 2011), p. B8.
  5. ^ "Form 10-K". www.sec.gov.
  6. ^ Robert Reed, "Doctor who?", The Franklin Daily Journal (August 16, 1979), p. 4.
  7. ^ Bill Dalton and Katharine Dalton, Legendary Locals of Andover (2013), p. 108.
  8. ^ a b c "George DeCesare LeMaitre, M.D." Boston Globe. July 22, 2018. p. B11.
  9. ^ "Self-centering valvulotome".
  10. ^ LeMaitre, George D.; Arakelian, Michael J. (January 1, 1988). "In Situ Grafting Made Easy: Modification of a Technique". Archives of Surgery. 123 (1): 101–103. doi:10.1001/archsurg.1988.01400250111022 – via jamanetwork.com.
  11. ^ James S. T. Yao, William H. Pearce, Advances in Vascular Surgery (2002), p. 241.
  12. ^ "LeMaitre Vascular to sell 6m shares at $8-$10 each", The Boston Globe (October 4, 2006), p. E2.
  13. ^ "Key Players In The Clot Management Devices Market: Teleflex, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Lemaitre Vascular, Straub Medical, Cook Medical, Johnson & Johnson And Others – Healthizmo".
  14. ^ a b "SEC Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019". Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  15. ^ a b Huang, Jiayue (October 14, 2019). "LeMaitre Vascular acquires Admedus's biologic patch business for $15.5M".
  16. ^ a b "LeMaitre Vascular acquires Artegraft". Vasular News. July 2, 2020.
  17. ^ "LeMaitre Vascular Acquires Lifespan Vascular Graft". NBC News. November 17, 2022.
  18. ^ a b c "EX-21.1 2 dex211.htm LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
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