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Apax Partners halts new investments into healthcare assets

Apax Partners, a global private equity firm based in London, has decided to stop new investments into healthcare assets as it sees fewer opportunities in the industry. The firm will now no longer have a dedicated healthcare team and will reassign the vast majority of the members to other roles, according ‘to an update to its limited partners’ seen by Bloomberg News. The firm will keep investing in ‘healthcare-adjacent businesses’.
October 14, 2024

Swiss Medical Network acquires ‘Centromedico’ and establishes second integrated care region

Swiss Medical Network, one of the two leading private clinic and hospital groups in Switzerland, has announced the acquisition of PDS Medical SA, which operates 10 group practices in the canton of Ticino under the brand name ‘Centromedico’. With Centromedico an important provider of primary care in Ticino, the new deal strengthens Swiss Medical Network’s presence in the region.
October 11, 2024

HBI News Round-up, Friday 11 October 2024

In this HBI News Round-up we cover Indian healthcare service provider Fortis Healthcare’s board approving a raise, three UK hospitals being investigated in disgraced surgeon case, UAE-based Burjeel expanding its PhysioTherabia network, Amazon adding same-day pharmacy delivery to 20 cities, and Netherlands health tech company Royal Philips partnering with Siloam Hospitals Group to spur development of Indonesia’s healthcare sector. 
October 11, 2024

Investment opportunities on the rise in India’s robotic surgery sector

Robotic surgery in India has seen a lot of growth over the past decade. According to the Clinical Robotic Surgery Association of India, approximately 60,000 robotic-assisted surgeries are performed annually by more than 1,500 surgeons across specialties including general surgery, oncology, nephrology, pulmonology, cardiology, gynaecology, and orthopaedic surgeries.
October 10, 2024

Why pharma services is such an attractive investment space

Last week Telemos Capital, a European mid-market private equity firm backed by family capital, bought Helios Global Group, a full-service global healthcare communications provider, from NorthEdge, a regional lower mid-market private equity company. We spoke with one of the deal's advisors — Tom Cowap, Managing Director at Baird, an employee-owned international investment bank — about how this is a bellwether for growing private equity interest in the med comms and wider pharma services space.
October 10, 2024

Healthcare providers and researchers can use software to get the most out of health records — an interview with Dexter

Dexter is a UK-based software company that provides a platform designed to get the most out of electronic healthcare records. The platform can be used to automate the process of running clinical trials based on ‘real world’ evidence from health record data, but it can also be used by healthcare providers to improve their operations (this part of the platform is called DexterCare). 
October 9, 2024

More than 80% of healthcare business leaders and 86% of investors expect to see an increase in investment, according to new report

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has published new research on how leaders at Europe’s largest healthcare companies and sector investors view the future of the health and life sciences (HLS), revealing robust confidence in the for-profit European healthcare sector.  The report surveyed more than 700 senior executives and major investors across the continent representing multi-billion dollar companies.  “The healthcare and life sciences sector is currently undergoing a significant shift. Technological developments, demographic changes and advancements in research and medicine are beginning to transform the sector, creating entirely new opportunities for investors,” Simmons & Simmons partner Simonetta Giordano told HBI.
October 9, 2024
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