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Mediclinic rejects £3.4bn takeover bid from consortium led by largest shareholder

Multinational South African hospital group Mediclinic has rejected a proposal for a possible cash offer of £3.4bn for the company’s entire share capital. The proposal came from a consortium comprising Mediclinic’s current largest shareholder, South African investment holding firm Remgro, and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s second largest container shipping provider.

Affidea deal – underbidders and EBITDA

HBI hears that the surprise buyer of European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) may not have been the highest bidder, despite winning out. HBI considers who else was in the running, and the EBITDA figure that may have been used for the deal.

Affidea bought by Groupe Bruxelles Lambert

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (“GBL”) has signed definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in European imaging and cancer treatment provider Affidea from B-FLEXION, the private investment firm of the Switzerland-based billionaire Bertarelli family. GBL will invest up to €1bn of equity for the transaction which is its first substantive healthcare investment.

€4bn Inovie looking for majority shareholder

French lab group Inovie is looking for a new majority stakeholder off a €4bn+ enterprise value, HBI hears. Inovie is currently working with financial advisers to determine interest from potential buyers.

KKR set to acquire IVI-RMA

Multiple sources say US-based buyout specialist KKR is close to closing a deal to buy Spain-based global fertility player IVI-RMA, the largest group in the sector by revenue.

Unilabs sale completes

AP Moller Holding, the investment company owned by the billionaire Maersk family, has closed the purchase of global lab and imaging chain Unilabs. 

Lim and others eye up IVIRMA

Singapore billionaire Peter Lim is said to be in talks to buy IVIRMA, the Euro-American fertility player where big private equity is expected to bid high. HBI understands other bidders may include KKR, Carlyle and Cinven.

Investors choose between Affidea and IVI RMA

Big private equity players in health care face a choice as to whether to go for Pan-European imaging group Affidea which is for sale through Goldman Sachs or for IVI RMA, the international fertility group.

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