Published: January 19, 2007
Transax International Signs $5.9 Million Letter of Intent to Sell MedLink Subsidiary and Related Intellectual Property
Transax to Retain IP Rights for the USA Market
Company Significantly Increases Cash Position, To Eliminate Outstanding Debt
Transax International Limited (Transax) (OTCBB: TNSX), a network solutions company for healthcare providers and health
insurance companies, today announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent
with CBGS -- Gestão e Processamento de Infomacões de Saúde Ltda. ("CBGS")
to sell its wholly owned Brazil subsidiary Medlink Conectividade em Saúde
Ltda. ("Medlink") and related intellectual property held by its subsidiary
Medlink Technologies, Inc. for 12.625 million Brazilian Reais (U.S. $5.9
million).
CBGS is a company created to provide technology services to companies
operating in the health sector in Brazil. CBGS is a subsidiary of Companhia
Brasileira de Meios de Pagamento ("CBMP"). CBMP is the leading credit card
payment processor in Brazil.
Under specific terms of the Letter of Intent CBGS will pay all cash and
retain operating control of Medlink's assets and intellectual property
rights in Brazil. The transaction is subject to operating, financial and
legal due diligence, any closing balance sheet adjustments, and signing of
definitive agreements which both parties anticipate completing by February
28, 2007.
Stephen Walters, President & CEO of Transax, commented, "We are pleased to
have been able to reach an agreement with CBGS in monetizing our Brazilian
operations. Transax will continue to retain certain licensing rights
outside of Latin America and IP rights for the USA market at no cost. This
transaction will also significantly strengthen our Balance Sheet. As a
result we intend to pay off all outstanding debts, including the $1.6
million preferred equity investment by Cornell Capital, as well as
drastically increasing our cash position. Additionally, we will evaluate
future business opportunities and update investors as warranted."
About Transax International Limited
Transax is an emerging network solutions provider for the healthcare
sector. Utilizing its proprietary MedLink(TM) technology, Transax provides
a service similar to credit card processing for the health insurance and
providers industries. A Transax transaction consists of: approving
eligibility, authorization, auto-adjudication of the health claim and
generating the claim payable files -- provided instantaneously in "real
time" -- regardless of method of claim generation.
Transax's solutions have been proven to significantly decrease health
insurance claim expenditures and healthcare provider costs. Based in Miami,
Fl, Transax maintains a major operations office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
with approximately 36 staff. The Company has contracts in place with major
health insurers in Brazil for up to 2,500,000 transactions per month and
currently undertakes approximately 700,000 transactions per month, for
which Transax receives approximately $0.55 cents per transaction.
About CBGS - Gestão e Processamento de Infomacões de Saúde Ltda.
CBGS is a company founded in 2006 by Companhia Brasileira de Meios de
Pagamento ("CBMP") with the objective to explore technology services to
companies operating in the health sector. CBMP is owned by a consortium of
Brazilian banks and is the leading credit card processor in Brazil.
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