Despite a generally weak hospital IPO market in Europe, Italy's largest hospital operator by revenue, Gruppo San Donato, looks set to list - perhaps prompted by the strong start the country's stock market has made to 2019.
Competition authorities are looking at an acquisition involving two of Ukraine's largest hospital players, a deal which a source tells us is in anticipation of the upcoming reforms that will put private and public hospitals on a level footing.
Europe's largest telemedicine provider has become the first to enter the German market by taking a JV with the country's fourth-largest hospital group.
European nursing home giant Korian has followed its French competitors onto the Spanish market with the acquisition of a high-end group in Andalucia. We speak to Korian's director of investor relations about why it finally made the move after years of steering clear.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company has acquired long-term, post-acute and home care group Amana Healthcare from existing shareholders. It comes as Dubai adopts DRG payments in the hospital sector this year which should propel the post-acute sector upwards, and the group tells us it is set to open a facility there imminently.
Investment company Lavorel Medicare, which owns German medicalised homecare specialist Bonitas Holdings and French medical equipment supplier Apotecnia, has been acquired by private equity firm Advent International.
Despite rumours last year that CVC Capital Partners might be set to exit its large French hospital asset, we look at why this now seems unlikely - and reveal which hospitals are performing the best and the group's EBITDA, together with a potential valuation.
Belgian real-estate investor Aedifica SA has acquired a large portfolio of UK care homes and entered the market for the first time. At a time when margins are being squeezed and groups in this sector have proved slow to sell generally, is this a wise move? We ask three experts for their views.
We hear that a handful of independent private hospitals in Turkey have closed in the past few months as a faltering economy takes its toll, while larger groups are apparently cutting back on staffing to maintain margins.
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