This week I attended the conference of HBI’s sister company, IPEM, in Paris. The event is a meeting place for private equity GPs and LPs, and featured many interesting panel discussions on the current state of the industry.
Listed pan-Asian hospital group IHH is acquiring Island Hospital, a 600-bed private hospital in Penang, Malaysia, for MYR 4.2 billion (~$970 million). The acquisition will bring IHH’s total Malaysian hospital footprint to 18.
Belgian pan-European healthcare real estate investor Aedifica has bought four new UK care homes for a total of £61.5 million (~€73 million). Aedifica describes the homes as “futureproof” due to being highly energy efficient.
Bioprinting is an innovative 3D printing technology that can create artificial organic structures such as tissues and organs. The technology has the potential to revolutionise healthcare because the ‘printed’ structures, despite being man-made, are composed of real living cells.
Enterprise Investors Fund IX (EI Fund IX) has announced its acquisition of Scan_Lab, Poland's largest digital dental prosthetics laboratory. While the deal value remains undisclosed, Enterprise Investors will partner with Scan_Lab’s CEO, Damian Waliłko, to acquire 100% of the company from domestic investors, whose funds were managed by Forum TFI.
Optegra, the UK’s second largest private ophthalmology group, has bought a new clinic in Yorkshire, bringing its total number of facilities across the country to 25.
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Fleur Agema, has found herself following the same journey as that taken by her predecessor, Conny Holder, and has abandoned plans to prohibit private equity investment in Dutch healthcare.
This infographic focuses on Polish and Central and Eastern European healthcare expenditure patterns, revealing significant differences from Western European counterparts.
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