Dutch medicalised homecare company Joost Zorgt is for sale after it went bankrupt this month and is attracting a wave of interest from investors. We hear from a market source that this is no surprise.
French insurance and financial services company AXA has entered the Irish nursing home market for the first time by investing in a relatively large portfolio of homes operated by the country's biggest group, Mowlam Healthcare. We speak to JLL which brokered the deal.
French medicalised homecare and gas giant Air Liquide is further consolidating the Swiss medicalised homecare market, with the acquisition of two homecare specialists. We speak to Air Liquide about its strategy in the country.
Belgian real-estate investor Cofinimmo is expanding its operations in the Netherlands, the smaller of its four markets, with the acquisition of a nursing home. We speak to a market expert about the acquisition.
Two of Europe’s biggest healthcare companies which were widely expected to IPO imminently are now, we hear, ruling out this year. Why the delay – and what does this tell us about the state of a slowing market? HBI speaks to an operator CEO and investment banking sources.
France's third-largest nursing home operator by revenue is expanding in Portugal with the acquisition of a home outside Porto. We speak to a market expert who feels Portugal presents interesting opportunities for consolidators from abroad.
Belgium-based REIT Aedifica is expanding its portfolio in the Netherlands with the construction of an elderly care facility in an opco-propco deal with Dutch assisted living operator Stepping Stones. We speak to the chief investment officer at Aedifica about opportunities opening up in Dutch elderly care.
We talk to the advisor behind the largest ever all-share merger in Nigeria's hospital sector, which recently closed, combining an Abraaj-owned group with a Lagos hospital. The deal coincides with the city's mandatory insurance rollout, a reform that could be helping to prompt a surge in new capacity where Nigeria most needs it.
As HBI predicted in November, some of the world's largest private equity firms are lining up bids for Columbia Pacific Management's pan-Asian hospital group Columbia Asia.
We hear there has been overseas interest in the Portuguese hospital market, and take a take a deep-dive into the sector amid rumours of a sale of one of the "big three".
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