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Burjeel to launch nine primary healthcare centres across the UAE

Burjeel Holdings, a major private hospital and primary healthcare provider in the MENA region, has announced the launch of nine new primary care clinics across Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, and Dubai. The new facilities are the result of an AED 20 million investment (~USD 5.45 million) by Burjeel Holdings.
October 18, 2024

Germany’s hospital reform passes Bundestag

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s long-awaited reform to Germany’s hospital sector is to become law after being passed by the Bundestag (the country’s legislature). The reform is likely to lead to many of the country’s smaller unspecialised inpatient facilities being either shut or converted into outpatient facilities. 
October 18, 2024

The UK and Europe set for increased PE investment and value chain consolidation in digital health — Rob Sher, Alvarez & Marsal

Europe, especially the UK, is seeing rising private equity interest and larger companies entering the digital health sector. Deal volumes are expected to grow as providers consolidate across the value chain.  The global digital health sector on the whole is increasingly attractive for private equity investments, with experts predicting a surge in M&A deals over the coming months.
October 18, 2024

Sanofi deal row a “non-event” indicating French politicians’ “lack of maturity in handling cross-border M&A deals”

On October 11, Reuters reported that Sanofi, the French drugmaker, is negotiating a sale of a 50% stake in its consumer health business, Opella, to US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). The negotiation is valuing the business at €16.4 billion. This move is part of Sanofi's strategy to separate its consumer healthcare segment to fund new drug development.
October 18, 2024

WhiteCoat acquires Good Doctor, creating Southeast Asia’s “largest digital healthcare group”

Singapore-based digital healthcare group WhiteCoat Global is acquiring Good Doctor Indonesia, a telemedicine platform with the largest insurer and corporate client network in Indonesia. WhiteCoat, which connects patients with payers and providers to deliver primary, specialist, and allied care, said in a statement the ‘landmark deal will create the region’s largest and most comprehensive digital healthcare group’. Thalia Georgiou, Managing Partner, Healthcare Advisory at Asia Care Group, also offers her perspective on the deal.
October 17, 2024

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

FREE BLOG The future of private equity

Last month I attended IPEM's (HBI’s sister company) private equity conference in Paris. Perhaps the most recurring theme from the two days of panel discussions was that the private equity industry is at a turning point.
October 11, 2024
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