CVC Capital Partners-backed Hellenic Healthcare S.A.R.L. has made a binding offer to buy 70% of listed Greek hospital group Hygeia from Marfin Investment Group (MIG).
RH Bophelo, South Africa's only black-owned special purpose acquisition company, has agreed to buy a stake in a 128-bed private hospital in Cape Town. It comes as the government looks close to voting on the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill. We talk to RH Bophelo CEO Quinton Zunga.
The UK's largest care home operator is seeking a buyer. We hear it is existing investors - and not chairman Dr Chai Patel - looking for an exit and that the listed Europeans are likely to steer clear.
Listed European and Indian outpatient, hospital and lab group Medicover has expanded in Romania by acquiring an independent 130-bed hospital in the northwest town of Oradea. We talk to local contacts about the deal.
Mehilainen, the big Finnish occupational outpatient group has been sold in a deal valued at around €1.8bn to CVC by Triton and KKR. We talk to Mehilainen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää about the deal and growth plans. Will he look outside Finland?
UK domiciliary care group Allied Healthcare has struck an agreement with its creditors, allowing it to continue operating after serious short-term cashflow problems caused by wage hikes, compulsory back pay and delays in passing all this on to local authorities.
As Healthcare Europa predicted in March, the Nordic’s largest care group, Attendo, is selling its Finnish healthcare business to Terveystalo, Finland’s largest healthcare provider by revenue.
The bidding war for India's second-largest hospital group continues to escalate despite the company board approving an offer of a capital injection last week from two wealthy family investor groups - and having previously supported a sale to Manipal - after shareholders made it clear they might prefer an outright takeover from other suitors.
Digital platforms in China are raising huge sums. In the last month, Tencent-backed WeDoctor raised $500m from investors in a private share sale that values the company at $5.5bn, while Ping An spinoff Good Doctor raised $1.1bn with a Hong Kong-exchange listed IPO. Healthcare Nova speaks to L.E.K.’s Shanghai-based managing director Stephen Sunderland to find out more about the digital health revolution.
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