acquisition.tender offer

words.SBC Medical Group Holdings announced it completed a tender offer for Waqoo, Inc., purchasing 575,052 shares at JPY 1,900 each—a JPY 1.09 billion investment that gives SBC over 50% of Waqoo’s voting rights and makes it the controlling shareholder. The acquisition, coupled with an off‑market transfer of the founder’s remaining stake, expands SBC’s regenerative‑medicine R&D and AI‑driven tissue‑engineering capabilities in Japan, supporting its strategy to broaden its healthcare‑technology portfolio and capture growth in the emerging personalized‑medicine market.