European mid-market PE firm Inflexion has sold European LifeCare Group (ELCG), a Denmark-based outpatient group focused on providing vaccination services with clinics in four European countries, to German PE firm Findos.
French PE firm Ardian has acquired domiciliary care provider Dovida, a Swiss-based company that was formerly part of US-based multinational franchise Home Instead.
Aedifica and Cofinimmo, two of Europe’s biggest listed healthcare-focused REITs, are one step closer to merging and becoming Europe’s largest healthcare real estate investor, after a majority of Aedifica’s shareholders gave their approval to the board’s proposal to acquire Cofinimmo.
Dutch healthcare group Bergman Clinics is expanding the aesthetics branch of its business into the Nordics. It has acquired Nordiska Kliniken, a plastic surgery clinic in Stockholm, Sweden, and plans to use this as a platform to grow its offering in the Nordics.
The Dutch Health Minister, Fleur Agema, has once again rejected calls to ban private equity investments in the healthcare sector, facing down a parliamentary majority supporting such a move. In a letter to the Netherlands’ House of Representatives, Agema outlined four key reasons for her decision, prioritising the sector’s need for investment over legislator’s concerns […]
Northwest Healthcare REIT, a Canada-headquartered multinational listed healthcare REIT specialising in inpatient facilities, is issuing C$500 million (~$352 million) worth of bonds as part of its strategy to strengthen its balance sheet.
Asker Healthcare Group, a medical products and solutions partner to caregivers across Europe, has acquired 100% of the shares in Mayumana Healthcare, a specialist distributor of medical equipment and related supplies in the Netherlands. Mayumana specialises in sales of equipment within urology, gynecology, neurosurgery and oncology to hospitals in the Dutch country. The company had […]
Healthcare systems around the world are increasingly overstretched, fragmented, and facing growing disease burdens and rising costs. While established markets such as Europe grapple with demographic shifts and rising demand within mature but strained systems, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is confronting the urgent need to build infrastructure and scale healthcare provision to serve a growing population. […]
Optegra, the UK’s second largest for-profit ophthalmology provider by revenue, has entered the Netherlands, acquiring a 51% stake in Iris Eye Clinic, a local operator in the south of the country. Meanwhile, Optegra is reportedly for sale itself.
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