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Sword Health acquires Germany’s Kaia Health

Sword Health, a US-based AI care company focused on digital treatment for muscle, joint and pelvic health conditions, is acquiring Germany’s Kaia Health in a deal valued at $285 million.

Gilde Healthcare-backed medtech group acquires Rudischhauser 

Netherlands-based thematic healthcare investor Gilde Healthcare has acquired Rudischhauser, a Germany-based surgical instruments and implants contract manufacturer, through its specialist contract manufacturing group for surgical instruments, Surgical Precision Instruments (SPI). 

PE firm Gimv stops new life sciences investments

Gimv, the Belgian private equity firm listed on Euronext Brussels, has announced it will stop making new life sciences investments. The firm plans to focus instead on growing its Anchor Investments (long-term partnerships with growth companies) and its four main platforms: Consumer, Healthcare, Smart Industries, and Sustainable Cities, which it sees as offering stronger growth potential, especially with ongoing digital changes.

Greek bank Piraeus interested in Bioiatriki to form integrated payor-provider

Piraeus, Greece’s largest bank, has approached Bioiatriki, Greece’s largest for-profit primary care group, with the intention of acquiring it and integrating it with the insurer it bought last year, Ethniki Insurance, to form a major payor-provider which would become the largest for-profit healthcare provider in the country. 

Australian competition authority reviewing Ramsay’s acquisition of NCPH from Healthscope

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is reviewing the acquisition by Australia’s largest for-profit hospital group, Ramsay Health Care, of Canberra-based National Capital Private Hospital (NCPH), the biggest asset that is being sold off in the liquidation of Healthscope, which was Australia’s second largest hospital group until it went bust last year.

The hottest PE firms in healthcare: Active investors 2015 – 2025

Introduction Healthcare Business International’s inaugural PE Hot List of 50 active private equity firms in healthcare highlights the investors shaping the sector’s future through scale, specialisation and strategic focus. Based on analysis of deal activity, portfolio exposure and sector performance, this offers a snapshot of where capital is now flowing across healthcare services, life sciences […]

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