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Bergman Clinics’ Jeroen Cammeraat on building a scalable multinational outpatient platform

Bergman Clinics is a multinational European clinic chain that focuses on elective medical specialist (secondary) care done in an outpatient setting. In a conversation with HBI Jeroen Cammeraat, CEO, explained how being focused on high volume elective procedures that can be done in an outpatient setting makes it possible to build an efficient and scalable multinational healthcare operator.

Mehiläinen buys Aleris to create €3.7bn revenue mega group

Finland-based pan-European healthcare group Mehiläinen is buying pan-Nordic outpatient group Aleris from private equity firm Triton, marking Mehiläinen’s entry into Norway and Denmark. The combined group will have €3.7 billion revenue and be present in nine countries, making it Europe’s largest outpatient-focused healthcare group.

MidEuropa buys wheelchair CDMO and Croatian opticians’ chain

Central European private equity firm MidEuropa has acquired MBL Group, Europe’s largest contract research and development organisation (CDMO) focused on assisted mobility devices, and has also acquired Optika Anda, Croatia’s largest optical retail chain.

Bavarian Nordic board tries to push shareholders to accept Nordic Capital-led take-private

A consortium made up of two private equity firms, Nordic Capital and Permira, is trying to buy out Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic and take it off the stock market. Bavarian Nordic’s board is keen for shareholders to accept, but not enough shareholders accepted the initial offer made in August. Nordic Capital and Permira have now made a sweetened offer, and lowered the percentage of shares that have to accept it in order for the offer to proceed from 75% to two thirds of the total.

Revenue distribution of top 100 hospital groups in EMEA by country

This week’s infographic aggregates the 2024 total revenues of the top 100 hospital groups across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, segmented by country, exposing distinct concentrations of market size and investment intensity.  The data has been sourced from the HBI Intelligence database. Germany commands a dominant position with €22.6 billion in hospital revenues, over […]

Inflexion sells European LifeCare Group to Findos

European mid-market PE firm Inflexion has sold European LifeCare Group (ELCG), a Denmark-based outpatient group focused on providing vaccination services with clinics in four European countries, to German PE firm Findos.

From 0 to 250%: EU pharma and Trump’s tariffs

Last month, HBI covered how EU tariff negotiations would affect pharma prices. At that time, Donald Trump had been threatening a 50% tariff on all EU imports and a 200% tariff on pharmaceutical imports, creating much uncertainty around the final state of the trade deal. On Tuesday, however, Trump told CNBC that while the tariffs on pharmaceuticals may be “small” initially, in a year's time they will be increased to 150% and then 250%.

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