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Foundation Holdings buys Saudi primary care

GCC investment firm Foundation Holdings has bought a majority stake in Saudi primary care business Shifa Al Munthaza Polyclinic (SMP) and has plans to list it in the next two years. HBI speaks to CEO Abishek Sharma to find out about its growth plans. 
September 2, 2021

Interview: Dr Mohamad Hamade, CEO, Amanat Holdings

Dubai-based investment firm Amanat Holdings has managed to almost double its share price over the past 18 months. CEO Dr. Mohamad Hamade shares the secrets behind this success with HBI and talks strategy as the group develops what he calls MENA's first post-acute care platform.
August 19, 2021

GCC hospital markets at a crossroads

Change is afoot for private hospital operators in the GCC with mandatory insurance rollouts and private sector-friendly reforms offset by squeezed margins and an exodus of foreign nationals. More big US non-profits have followed in the footsteps of their peers Cleveland and Mayo and investors are pouring money into new developments in some markets - but steering well clear of others. Here is our round-up after several weeks interviewing local sources for HBI Intelligence. 
August 5, 2021

Mubadala Health diversifies with $800m UEMedical deal

Mubadala Health, the integrated health network of sovereign investor Mubadala, has added speciality fertility and women's health services to its network and expanded into Saudi with the acquisition of UEMedical. It now claims to be the largest IVF provider in the region.
June 17, 2021

EMEA for-profit hospital sector shrinks 3-5% in 2020

Revenues in the EMEA for-profit hospital market fell by 3-5% in 2020 due to COVID-19 but could bounce back strongly in 2021, figures from HBI Intelligence show. NMC Health CEO Michael Davis tells HBI he anticipates a ‘return to normalcy’ to continue through the year. 
March 11, 2021

GCC post-acute group sells for 10.5x as M&A climate cools

TVM Capital Healthcare has sold the GCC's largest post-acute/rehab provider Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center (CMRC) to investor Amanat Holdings for 10.5x its 2020 EBITDA, a much lower multiple than it got for similar business Provita six years ago. We discuss the change in M&A climate with TVM CEO Dr Helmut Schuehsler and talk to Amanat's CFO about its plans with CMRC and its three other healthcare assets.
March 4, 2021

EMEA hospital sector finishes 2020 strongly

Private hospital operators across Europe, the Middle East and South Africa had a good last few months of trading in what was a turbulent 2020, but the start of 2021 looks tougher. We talk to operators across the region.
February 25, 2021

NMC CEO: Any sale will be a competitive, traditional process

Will the creditors of NMC Healthcare, the GCC's largest for-profit healthcare operator which has been in administration since April 2020, choose a sale of its core UAE business in the next 3-6 months or a longer-term, creditor-led restructuring? We talk exclusively to NMC CEO Michael Davis and UAE sources. A 'fire sale' of parts of its core UAE business now seems entirely off the table.
February 4, 2021

Bridgepoint withdraws Diaverum IPO

Private equity firm Bridgepoint has pulled the IPO of global renal care group Diaverum after "indications received did not fully reflect the fundamental value of the business".
November 30, 2020

Payor reforms loom in GCC as COVID/expat exodus bites

Payors are maturing and providers are suffering from the double whammy of COVID and a declining expat population, said panellists at HBI's State of the Regions webinar on Middle East & North Africa (MENA). Other topics including hedging risk, public sector reform and how global trends are manifesting in the region.
November 26, 2020
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