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PAI Partners seeks sovereign wealth fund boost for Sanofi consumer healthcare bid

PAI Partners, the French private equity firm, is in talks with two of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds to support its offer for Sanofi SA's consumer health division. According to anonymous Bloomberg sources, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Singapore's GIC Pte are considering joining PAI's consortium. The deal could value the business […]

August 29, 2024

Investors eye wellness testing in veterinary medicine — Interview with Eve Hanks, CEO of MI:RNA Diagnostics

The UK, Germany, and France lead in veterinary diagnostics, while southern Europe lags According to UK’s online pet marketplace Pets4Homes, demand for puppies for sale rose by 104% at the peak of the lockdown in May 2020. S&P Global notes animal diagnostics is now a growing area. MI:RNA Diagnostics, a Scottish veterinary diagnostics company, […]

August 20, 2024

PE firm Cinven to become largest investor in Swedish healthy drinks and snacks company Vitamin Well

PE firm Cinven will become the largest investor in Swedish healthy drinks and snacks company Vitamin Well, pending completion of the transaction in the second half of this year subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

August 16, 2024

Swiss’s Unilabs and US-based C2N Diagnostics team up to improve Alzheimer’s diagnosis in Europe

Unilabs, a Swiss diagnostics company, has partnered with US-based medtech C2N Diagnostics to exclusively distribute C2N’s Alzheimer’s blood tests across the EU, including Norway, Switzerland, the U.K., Peru, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

August 15, 2024

emeis’ share price falls 26% as it downgrades 2024 EBITDAR projection

Multinational listed French nursing home giant emeis has reported strong revenue and occupancy growth for the first half of 2024. But the company’s H1 results also included a downgraded EBITDAR forecast for 2024, causing the company’s share price to fall 26%.

August 2, 2024

Germany seeks to reduce hospital beds, remains far ahead of other European countries

The EU’s healthcare workforce is in crisis, with health systems described as “underprepared, understaffed, and facing underinvestment.” Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, healthcare in the EU has been grappling with significant challenges.

July 12, 2024

Surprise result in France’s national assembly elections as left wing alliance comes out on top

No clear path for the French parliament with no grouping capable of securing a majority, as the far-right National Rally unexpectedly falls to third. The second round of the French National Assembly elections produced a shock perhaps even greater than that delivered by the National Rally’s successful European elections, as the left wing alliance defied earlier polling and emerged as the biggest grouping in the legislature.

July 8, 2024

Parties long on promises and short on detail as France holds its breath for election second round

French voters return to the polls this weekend for the second round of voting in the country’s legislative elections. 577 National Assembly seats are being contested.

July 4, 2024

PMI’s changing business model

Access to primary care is now the number one reason people in the UK want private medical insurance (PMI), according to data collected by UK health insurer Vitality. Other NHS countries have been seeing similar trends since Covid. Katie Tryon, Vitality’s Director of Health Strategy, spoke about how this has completely changed the PMI business model — for the better — at HBI’s conference last month.

July 3, 2024

Eurofins’ share price falls after allegations it is “optimised for malfeasance”

Multinational French labs group Eurofins saw its share price lose almost a quarter of its value on Monday after US investigative research and investment firm Muddy Waters released a report highlighting numerous “oddities and contradictions” which it believes suggest the group is “optimised for malfeasance”. The share price regained most of its lost value after Eurofins published a rebuttal which addressed some of the issues raised in the report. However questions still remain, most pertinently over allegations that the firm’s CEO and founder, Gilles Martin, has been using real estate to “siphon” off money from the company.

June 28, 2024

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