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Grifols; Family Power May Be Limited, Little Credit Implication

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Grifols (GRF SM); reports founding family set to have board power limited; doesn’t alter credit outlook.


  • El Confidencial (newspaper) is reporting the board is near to an agreement to “ringfence the founding family from strategic management decisions”. There are three members of the Grifols family on the 11-person board right now
  • A facet of the Gotham short-selling raid does revolve around related party transactions between the firm and the family so this appears aimed to alleviate this concern. The Spanish regulator is still looking into Grifols’ relationship with Scranton (reportedly a family vehicle)
  • We noted Qube Research has established a new short position (0.5%) on 31-Jan but the key for the 2025 refinancing event is the ShanghaiRAAS stake sale to Haier, on which there is no new news.

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