Occupational health and safety services in Spain are consolidating as regulatory-driven demand draws private capital.

Capital, through its portfolio company Avanta Salud Integral, has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Vítaly Group, bringing together two of the region’s largest OHS providers.

Vítaly, based in Badajoz, was created in 2022 through the merger of Grupo Preving and Cualtis.

It serves around 140,000 clients and 2.5 million workers, employing approximately 3,700 professionals.

Co-founders and co-CEOs Jesús Nieto and Andrés López will reinvest in the combined entity alongside H.I.G., Avanta founder Josep Pla, and minority investor MCH Private Equity.

Both Avanta and Vítaly provide mandatory occupational health surveillance, technical prevention, risk engineering, training, and compliance consulting, as well as elective employee health services, to predominantly SME customers across Spain.

The combined group will cover about 4 million protected workers from 505 centres with roughly 5,500 employees.

plans to use the scaled footprint to accelerate international expansion and deploy Vítaly’s AI capabilities across back-office workflows, health surveillance, and digital elective services.

Rohin Jain, managing director at H.I.G. Europe, called the acquisition a landmark transaction that creates a platform of continental scale with significant organic growth and synergy potential.