Nearly a third of all private equity-owned health care businesses in Europe have been held for at least five years, according to the new HBI Deals Pipeline tool. That suggests many private equity houses are struggling to sell on their investments.
Ten months after entrepreneur Joseph Priel unexpectedly died, HBI understands that Edna Priel, his wife, has started to be increasingly hands on with the management of the family's assets and investments in Croatia, Hungary and Romania.
Conglomerate-owned Italian hospital group Humanitas is in the process to buy Romanian healthcare group Regina Maria. HBI understands Mid Europa tried to sell the company before summer without success, possibly because of the price.
Russian publicly-traded investor Sistema and its healthcare network Medsi is in talks with Russia’s largest insurance private company AlfaStrakhovanie to buy 100% of its Alfa Health Center clinics, according to the Russian press.
The Indian government is unlikely to manage to control hospital pricing, despite its battle over stents and other consumables. And none of the big hospital groups are embracing the government's low-cost scheme to cover 50m families.
HBI can exclusively reveal that multi-national CEE hospital chain Penta has started meeting with investors with a view to selling at least a minority stake, months after it denied the company was for sale. It tells HBI that it wants a partner who can support international expansion plans.
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