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Advent buys 13% of Fleury

Private equity group Advent International has purchased a minority stake in quoted Brazilian diagnostics provider Grupo Fleury for an undisclosed fee. An inside source tells us there is no drag along. We also spoke to chairman Dr Marcos Bosi Ferraz about the deal and the impact of the recession on the private healthcare industry.

Risebrow to help companies sell to the NHS

Hugh Risebrow, the former UK managing director of lab group synlab UK and former commercial director at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust has become CEO of UK consultancy Latchmore Associates. He hopes to help healthcare service companies set up base in the UK and to sell their services to the NHS.

Pihlajalinna launches more JVs after IPO

Pihlajalinna, the Finnish healthcare and social services outfit, which recently IPOed with a market capitalisation of €255m, has struck a third joint venture with Finnish municipalities to outsource health and social services. Finland is likely to open up even more to the private sector under the current government.

Mid Europa swoops on Regina Maria

Mid Europa has beaten Acibadem to buy Regina Maria, the second largest Romanian healthcare group from Advent International. Mid Europa is a veteran investor in the healthcare services sector in East Europe having built Lux-Med in Poland into the largest national operator before selling it to Bupa. Can it repeat a similar trick in Romania? We talk to Mid Europa boss Matthew Strassberg.

Opportunities in Croatia

Where are the opportunities for private healthcare in Croatia? We profile the sector and talk to Jasna Omeragic Resic, vice president of strategy and business development, at the largest imaging service operator in Central and Eastern Europe, affidea.

Interview: Nicolas Weber, Co-Founder, medneo

A new business model in Germany has started to change the operation of diagnostic imaging centres by offering very high quality images at low prices to physicians, hospitals, research institutes and payors. Instead of buying equipment as in the past, customers can buy clinical images – pay-per-use. We talk to Nicolas Weber, one of three ex-Siemens managers who set up the business in 2011. Marcol, the big UK investor most commonly linked to property, is backing medneo which plans a big international expansion.

China’s Phoenix Healthcare taps into the corporate market

Phoenix Healthcare Group, which claims to be the largest private Chinese mainland hospital operator, has paid HK$180m ($23m)for 20% of UMP Healthcare Holdings, a Hong Kong-based outpatient operator. The two plan a joint venture in the outpatient sector, targeting corporate and individual clients in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, an area around Beijing with a population of […]

Manipal moves into outpatient diagnostics

Manipal Education and Medical Group, part of the big Manipal hopsital group, is to buy south Indian diagnostics chain Medall Healthcare for about Rs 1,000 crore ($180m).

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