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Circle to partner in China and Europe

UK hospital management group Circle is set to partner with a European player to offer a rehabilitation solution in the UK. We name the likely partner. Circle has also announced a joint venture with what it claims is the fourth largest hospital chain in China.
July 1, 2016

Carlyle buys stake in Schoen Klinik

German newspaper Handelsblatt reports that private equity house Carlyle has bought a minority stake in German hospital operator Schön Klinik.
June 30, 2016

PAI turns to SAR as Maisons de Famille pays 14x EBITDA for Amma

French care group Maisons de Famille has started due diligence on Spain's fifth largest group Amma after having a €220-230m bid accepted. Considering Amma's €16m EBITDA target for 2016, owner Caixabank is fetching 14-15x forward EBITDA. Private equity bidder PAI Partners stepped back and has turned towards the market leader SARquavitae, which is also readying up for sale. Also in Spain, Belgian care group Armonea has bought La Saleta, a nine-nursing home group in Valencia with sales of €34m.
June 27, 2016

Salauno continues expansion

Mexican affordable optha group salauno has raised 72m pesos (US$3.8m), 50m from GLA, the fund of the Laviada Diez-Barroso Family, and the rest from IFC, a branch of the World Bank, to spend on a new 3,000 square metre hospital and ten new clinics in Mexico city. Director General, Javier Okhuysen, also said a sale to a large group would be appropriate in a “couple of years time.”
June 27, 2016

NMC to enter India

India continues to draw Gulf hospital groups, as NMC looks set to follow in Aster DM and VPS Healthcare’s footsteps by buying Sunshine Hospitals of Hyderabad. The Emiratis will pay INR 4bn (US$60m) for a 65% stake in a group with around 500 beds that made EBITDA of INR 33.2m (US$0.5m) on sales of INR 1,572m (US$23.7m), in the financial year ending March 2015.
June 27, 2016

Dasa to buy Laboratório Gaspar

Brazil's market leader in labs and diagnostics Diagnósticos da América (Dasa) is buying Laboratório Gaspar for R$60m (US$17.5m).
June 27, 2016

Hong Kong operators eye mainland medical tourists

Hong Kong operators are expanding to mainland China to promote their brands and bring medical tourists to Hong Kong, according to Thalia Georgiou, founder of consultancy firm Asia Care Group. We look at how Hong Kong-based Townhealth, is building dentistry and cosmetic surgery networks on the mainland, one year after Chinese insurer China Life Insurance became its largest shareholder.
June 22, 2016

Apollo gets a foot in China

Indian hospital operator Apollo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with development firm Hainan Ecological Smart City Group (HESCG) to create a large healthcare facility, which includes both a hospital and medical college, in Hainan province.
June 22, 2016

Traditional medicine endorsed by South African doctors

A seemingly innocuous question on the continued role of traditional or faith-based healers in South African healthcare at the Africa Health conference, sparked a fascinating discussion on the practice, which cannot be funded by insurers by law, and yet is relied upon by many in a country, which a recent report found had the lowest life expectancy of 194 countries.
June 22, 2016

Ambea set to IPO

Investment analysts expect Swedish care group Ambea to file for an IPO soon. Banks and advisers have already approached it to kick off the process.
June 22, 2016
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