HBI hears that the sale of UK-based private dental partnership network Dentex is underway, and catches up with a well-placed source to find out more about first-round bidders and pricing.
Dutch elderly care is seeing a very definite government-backed shift away from nursing homes and towards care at home, with increasing reluctance for the public purse to pay for the 'hotel' component of care. HBI speaks to advisor Rune Aresvik from Vardetun, who has just completed a detailed review of the sector, to find out if this is a problem or an opportunity
A primetime ‘exposé’ of how private equity operates in the German ophthalmology market had some of its largest operators in its crosshairs last week. We talk to the founder of Artemis Augenkliniken, who was interviewed on camera, and a specialist healthcare lawyer, for their take on hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons.
French lab group Inovie is looking for a new majority stakeholder off a €4bn+ enterprise value, HBI hears. Inovie is currently working with financial advisers to determine interest from potential buyers.
HBI hears from multiple sources that NHS-focussed UK dental group Rodericks Dental is set to buy UK rival Dental Partners from London-based private equity August Equity.
As Germany-based healthcare conglomerate Fresenius looks to simplify the group's structure, selling off non-core parts of a business which currently spans hospitals, dialysis, pharma, rehabilitation and more, it is building a $2.4bn new business partnership in the US. We speak to an EU-based source familiar with Fresenius to put this all in context.
Almost a year after its IPO, lab giant Synlab has posted strong FY21 results bolstered by Covid, but not, it says, dependant on it. Management say extra cash will be used as a springboard for growth. Could it also lead to private equity majority shareholder Cinven selling its remaining interest?
Ramsay Santé, the European branch of multinational hospital giant Ramsay Healthcare, has made a bid for listed Swedish specialty care provider GHP Specialty Care.
The self-pay market in the UK is growing much faster than other parts of the private sector. Justin Ash, CEO of the UK’s second largest for-profit hospital group, Spire Healthcare, tells us it almost doubled to 15m people in the past two years, and will only continue to grow in the face of the NHS backlog.
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