Gilde Healthcare-backed imaging platform RAD-x has entered the German imaging sector with the acquisition of a three-centre group, HBI can reveal, and expects to close more deals in the coming months.
Despite one of the panellists at HBI's DACH-State of the Regions broadcast last week labelling 2020 "the wildest year in recent history in the healthcare sector", there are lots of reasons to feel positive about Europe's German-speaking countries as we look towards the new year.
The UK's largest teleradiology provider Medica has acquired Global Diagnostics Ireland (GDI), which does eye screening, diagnostic managed services and teleradiology. With only a minority of revenue from the latter, we ask CEO Stuart Quin what this expansion outside of Medica's core business means for its strategy.
Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) is indirectly acquiring over 25% of the shares of Europe's largest radiopharmaceuticals provider Curium Pharma, HBI can reveal, after owner Capvest earlier pulled a majority sales process because of COVID-19.
HBI speaks exclusively to George Spanos, chairman and CEO of Greece's largest primary care and diagnostic chain, about the company's plans for the future and whether rumours the company might be for sale are true.
Pan-Nordic healthcare group Aleris lost its previous owner Investor AB nearly 1bn SEK (€90m) in its last nine months of ownership before PE group Triton acquired it in late 2019. New CEO Sofia Palmquist, pinched from competitor Capio, has been tasked with the turnaround and digitalisation of the company and gives HBI her first public interview since taking the job.
An investigation has found that kickbacks are still rife in the Nigerian diagnostics market with some of the market's players artificially hiking prices so as to retain the extra costs.
The Spanish private healthcare market has been one of Europe's most attractive for institutional investors of late with strong organic and inorganic growth opportunities. PWC Spain's deals leader for Healthcare & Pharma Jose Zarzalejos talks us through the drivers, movers and shakers in the six main sub-sectors: hospitals, imaging, oncology, care homes, IVF and dentistry.
EBITDA multiples paid in the German outpatient sector have fallen 10-15% from pre-COVID levels because of market uncertainty due to the pandemic, an advisor tracking the space tells HBI.
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