Over half of France's laboratory sites now belong to the market's seven biggest players after rapid M&A activity saw 10% of all sites consolidated in 2018. More deals are on the horizon.
HBI understands from sources that UK nursing home Advinia has hired Macquarie to advise on options for the company going forward, including looking for a strategic investor to grow the company. We speculate on who any such investor could be with the help of a market source.
Belgian nursing home group Armonea has merged with French rival Colisee after months of preparing for a sale, creating Europe's fourth largest nursing home group. We hear from a reliable source that this is effectively a takeover by the French player.
The CEO of the last major foreign-invested private equity firm in Russia has been arrested on charges of "large-scale fraud". It is almost certain to hurt the sale processes of two of Russia's largest healthcare companies and further dampen whatever foreign investor interest is left in the country. Michael Calvey, who founded Baring Vostok in […]
RH Bophelo, a black-owned Special Purpose Acquisition Company listed in South Africa, has acquired another hospital as it continues consolidating the market outside the grip of the Big Three. We talk to CEO Quinton Zunga.
Private equity group Palamon Capital Partners has completed a roll-over investment, alongside core Palamon investors Adams Street Partners and Dutch pension fund PGGM, in German eye care specialist group Ober Scharrer.
Romanian Healthcare group Regina Maria looks like it will trade in 2019, with owners Mid Europa close to appointing a sell-side advisor and a decision possibly due this summer, HBI hears. We look at it in the context of private equity investments across Europe's hospital sector.
Five months after the IHH-owned Turkish hospital group's Bulgarian and Macedonian assets were put up for sale, a deal finally looks in the making with two investors in late-stage discussions to buy the Bulgarian business, we are told.
Rumours that UK care home operator Barchester is about to sell abound, but we've heard it all before and it's been on the market for over six months. Could this be the real deal?
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