As one of the world's largest private equity groups enters the sector, we talk to a healthcare M&A specialist who has worked on European IVF deals who thinks prices are too high.
Overall activity in Western Europe's healthcare property market dropped last year. Though things were busier in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, transactions were down in France, Germany and Belgium.
French healthcare platform Doctegestio has been buying heavily in health and social care over the last few years, reaching a revenue run-rate of €240m which makes it a top 20 player in the country. We talk to its healthcare COO Benjamin Vitre about the thread holding a seemingly disparate group of healthcare assets together, and where he hopes the company will be in five years time.
Malaysia-based outpatient and corporate care group Qualitas’ planned IPO on the Singapore Exchange is “work in progress” and has been delayed to later this year, a well-placed source tells Healthcare Nova. HCN reported at the end of 2017 that Qualitas was planning to list on Singapore Exchange (SGX) to raise S$200m (US$152m) in early 2018. […]
As predicted in October by Healthcare Europa, Attendo, the largest Nordic care group, plans to sell its Finnish healthcare business while retaining its core business of elderly care, social psychiatry and care for people with disabilities.
Brazilian insurer-providers Hapvida Systema de Saude and Notre Dame Intermedica will go public in the next two months. We talk to contacts in the country - one of whom is in no doubt about which they would invest in.
Private equity group Bridgepoint has launched the sale of Care UK's nursing home segment. It could fetch a multiple twice what it paid when acquiring and de-listing the company in 2010, having tripled revenues and increased EBITDA by a third since then. We talk to a healthcare real estate expert to find out more.
France's second-largest hospital group, Elsan, has sold three clinics totalling just over 200 beds to DocteGestio. The smaller group has been buying heavily in healthcare, social care and hotels in the capital region and Normandy, and is now in the top 20 health and social care operator's in France by revenue.
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