How would you describe a for-profit healthcare group which basically takes people away from jobs in the public sector and then hires them back to the same employers in exchange for a fat fee? How about parasitic?
European REIT Aedifica has been expanding aggressively in Germany and is planning its first acquisition in the Finnish market. We speak to the group's chief investment officer about its strategy and what makes an attractive market.
Since the end of October, healthcare real-estate investor Aedifica has acquired five sites in Germany and put in a public tender offer to acquire 100% of Finnish healthcare property developer Hoivatilat. We speak to the company's chief investment officer about the details.
Finnish health tech specialist My Nightingale has launched a €50-80m private funding round to develop an app which would bring a preventative blood testing services to individual patients.
As first speculated by HBI last year, Finnish health and social care provider Mehiläinen has offered to buy competitor Pihlajalinna. We talk to Mehiläinen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää and local sources about integrating the two companies, competition concerns, the possibility of a bidding war and international expansion, which Järvenpää gives HBI exclusive details on.
From next year Finland, one of Europe's largest occupational healthcare markets, will change funding structures to incentivise employers to spend more on preventive care and less on medical care. HBI explains the law and looks at how it will affect the market.
Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
Terveystalo has bought a health survey company and its IP. Simo Taimela, the CEO of its new purchase, Evalua, tells HBI that its product will help the Finnish occupational healthcare provider to create better health interventions. Is there more to the deal?
Jos Lamers, 55, the man widely seen as the architect of modern-day Unilabs is moving away from a full-time role at the Pan-European lab and imaging platform, HBI can exclusively reveal. So what lies behind the move and who succeeds him as CEO?
Terveystalo has appointed a man who spent 18 years at a Finnish airline as its new CEO. In the same week, Pihlajalinna is dropping 180 of its management staff to cut costs.
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