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The UK and Europe set for increased PE investment and value chain consolidation in digital health — Rob Sher, Alvarez & Marsal

Europe, especially the UK, is seeing rising private equity interest and larger companies entering the digital health sector. Deal volumes are expected to grow as providers consolidate across the value chain.  The global digital health sector on the whole is increasingly attractive for private equity investments, with experts predicting a surge in M&A deals over the coming months.
October 18, 2024

Apax Partners halts new investments into healthcare assets

Apax Partners, a global private equity firm based in London, has decided to stop new investments into healthcare assets as it sees fewer opportunities in the industry. The firm will now no longer have a dedicated healthcare team and will reassign the vast majority of the members to other roles, according ‘to an update to its limited partners’ seen by Bloomberg News. The firm will keep investing in ‘healthcare-adjacent businesses’.
October 14, 2024

Why pharma services is such an attractive investment space

Last week Telemos Capital, a European mid-market private equity firm backed by family capital, bought Helios Global Group, a full-service global healthcare communications provider, from NorthEdge, a regional lower mid-market private equity company. We spoke with one of the deal's advisors — Tom Cowap, Managing Director at Baird, an employee-owned international investment bank — about how this is a bellwether for growing private equity interest in the med comms and wider pharma services space.
October 10, 2024

Bupa expands subscription offerings with launch of Well+Silver

The UK branch of British multinational healthcare company Bupa has expanded its health and wellbeing subscription services with the launch of the Well+Silver tier for self-paying customers.  This new tier follows the bronze subscription introduced in June and is available to UK residents over 18 without Bupa insurance.
October 4, 2024

Interview: Phil Frame, NorthEdge

NorthEdge is a regionally focussed UK PE firm, headquartered in Manchester and with presence across the North and Midlands. It invests in lower mid-market companies across the healthcare, technology and business services sectors, and currently has £900m of assets under management.  In an interview with HBI, Phil Frame, Partner and Healthcare Investment Lead at NorthEdge, discussed some of the areas of healthcare innovation the firm is currently most excited about, and the abundant opportunity in the UK regions.
September 26, 2024
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