eQ Care special investment fund has signed an agreement to sell a substantial portfolio of healthcare properties, predominantly elderly and special care homes, to a Scandinavian property fund with a focus on social care.
It's been nearly two years since Australian-owned French hospital group Ramsay Sante completed the acquisition of Nordic-French acute care operator Capio. Contacts give HBI their assessment of how the integration is going and we take a look at Capio's performance since it was acquired.
UBS managing director Martin Henrichs joins investors in a discussion on valuations and demand post-Covid. Will a mountain of dry powder keep multiples high? And what sectors are the most attractive? Panel includes: Tobias Küng, Managing Director, EQT Partners, Xavier Cheval, Head of Healthcare Property Investment, Icade Sante, Ravi Umarji, Vice President, PG Capital
Shares in pan-European elderly care group Korian dived by 10% after it announced a €400m capital raise to fund the acquisition of France's third-largest psychiatry provider Inicea from infrastructure investor Antin. But did it pay over-the-odds and do all shareholders support the capital raise? We talk to an analyst from Bryan, Garnier & Co.
REIT Healthcare Activos Yield has listed on the Euronext Access Paris, while its sister company Healthcare Activos has made its first acquisition outside of Spain, CEO of the management company for both tells HBI. He talks us through the listing and the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the development of the Spanish care home sector.
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority's (FCCA) surprise decision to oppose the merger of Mehilainen and Pihlajalinna has nothing to do with the changing political climate around the privatisation of healthcare, its merger control director tells HBI. She also explains why you can't compare it to the merger of Terveystalo and Attendo in 2018.
The Canadian pension fund CDPQ is co-investing alongside EQT in the acquisition of French nursing home operator Colisée, its second investment in the European healthcare sector.
UK-based CARE Fertility has acquired Nuffield Health's Woking Assisted Conception Scheme, its third acquisition since being acquired by Silverfleet Capital.
Shares in Finnish outsourcing specialist Pihlajalinna have crashed 25% on the news that the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (FCCA) has recommended that the country's Market Court block its takeover by CVC-backed competitor Mehilainen.
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