Both for-profit and public healthcare operators in Poland have been struggling to cope after a large influx of Ukrainian refugees. HBI speaks to contacts in Poland to find out more.
French multinational care group Orpea has agreed to pay back €25.7m of the €55.8m which the French government says it is owed. The company has also decided to sell €2bn of property. Its shares continue to bounce around €20-25, down from over €100 pre-scandal.
HBI hears that the surprise buyer of European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) may not have been the highest bidder, despite winning out. HBI considers who else was in the running, and the EBITDA figure that may have been used for the deal.
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (“GBL”) has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea from B-FLEXION, the private investment firm of the Switzerland-based billionaire Bertarelli family. GBL will invest up to €1bn of equity for the transaction which is its first substantive healthcare investment.
This week we looked at perceived healthcare quality across selected European countries last year based on research conducted by market research company IPSOS.
Healthcare Activos has new investors as of today - and big plans for tomorrow and beyond. HBI catches up with its clearly enthused founder and executive chairman Jorge Guarner and CEO Albert Fernandez to find out more about their plans for expansion.
Infermedica, the Polish health tech start-up, will expand its US investments, thanks to the funding gained in a recent Series B financing round. HBI talks with Miłosz Wiciński, Business Development Executive at Infermedica, to learn more.
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?
How are for-profit health care groups being affected by and reacting to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Some are providing free services to refugees, others are supporting Ukrainian armed forces. HBI speaks to Michał Rybak, CFO at Lux Med, leading Polish for-profit operator and Konstantin Lebediev, an expert on private healthcare in Ukraine and a former General Manager of the first private hospital in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
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