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Interview: Franz-Robert Klingan, Bain & Company

Healthcare Europa speaks to Franz-Robert Klingan, Munich-based partner at global consultants Bain & Company who runs its healthcare private equity practice for EMEA, to find out his three key messages from the last year and where he thinks the hotbeds of activity will be going forward.

Why healthcare property is attracting investors with “no idea what they are doing”

Real estate is at the heart of many deals in healthcare services. It can be the key to premium pricing, and deals lost and won. David Batchelor, executive director, specialist markets, CBRE, told HBI 2018 that real estate re-pricing has seen a surge in interest and thereby a rise in opportunities for operators to raise funds – but is this a good thing? Opinions are divided.

France’s biggest independent hospital looks for sale & leaseback deal

Sources at our HBI 2018 Conference tell us that the rumoured sale of the 500-bed Confluent hospital in Nantes should go ahead despite a temporary block imposed by the local high court. A well-educated estimation as to its value indicates it could be one of the biggest single hospitals deal seen in years.

Korian’s FY 2017 revenue was flat in France but big in Belgium

European nursing home giant Korian saw revenue growth of 5% in 2017 of which half was organic. Growth was slow in France while the acquisition of 1,000 beds from Senior Assist Belgium helped its revenue grow 40% there - the same disparity was seen in organic growth.

Jack-of-all-trades French player plans €1bn in revenue by 2022

French healthcare platform Doctegestio has been buying heavily in health and social care over the last few years, reaching a revenue run-rate of €240m which makes it a top 20 player in the country. We talk to its healthcare COO Benjamin Vitre about the thread holding a seemingly disparate group of healthcare assets together, and where he hopes the company will be in five years time.

French giant sells clinics to smaller rival

France's second-largest hospital group, Elsan, has sold three clinics totalling just over 200 beds to DocteGestio. The smaller group has been buying heavily in healthcare, social care and hotels in the capital region and Normandy, and is now in the top 20 health and social care operator's in France by revenue.

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