Pan-Nordic healthcare group Aleris has acquired the specialised hospital and acute care arm of competitor Praktikertjänst, doubling its Swedish footprint in a move that acting CEO Thomas Berglund says could drive more public sector outsourcing.
London-listed EMEA healthcare group NMC Health saw a 25% fall in its share price on Tuesday, December 17, as research firm Muddy Waters, founded by renowned short seller Carson Block, published a negative report on the company. NMC Health says the assertions appear "principally unfounded, baseless and misleading, containing many errors of fact."
Assisted living opco Tertianum, Switzerland's largest nursing home provider by revenue, has been sold to a Swiss private equity company, its owner, listed real estate investor Swiss Prime Site (SPS), has announced.
HBI hears the sale of managed equipment services (MES) provider Althea has been withdrawn for now by PE owner Permira. We look into why it stalled, and when the auction of rival Medipass is due to start.
Listed real-estate investor Swiss Prime Site (SPS) has put its assisted living opco Tertianum for sale. We speak to an advisor following this space and hear from Credit Suisse, appointed to advise on the deal, about the Swiss residential care market.
Brazilian hospital operator and holding company Evipar (Eustácio Vieira Participações) is investing R $400m (US $96m) into the construction of two new hospitals to be rented out to the country's largest healthcare providers.
TPG-backed Indian hospital group Manipal and BRS Ventures, the investment firm of NMC Health's founder B.R. Shetty, are reportedly leading the pack to acquire the Indian portion of Columbia Asia from its American owners.
This year, Brazilian healthcare has been characterised by a flurry of activity from two vertically integrated insurers in particular. The most intense competition has occurred in the affluent South, where providers are battling it out for market share.
The failure of Slovakian opposition parties to build a coalition or push through a bill banning verticalisation in healthcare could make a minority sale of Penta Investments's CEE hospital business PHI less likely.
Italian nursing home group Edos, subsidiary of listed holding company Eukedos, is to acquire a non-profit nursing home facility run by a religious order. We speak to a local advisor about whether the market might see a growing trend of acquisitions in the non-profit sector.
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