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Penta to sell stake in hospital business; IMs out by March

CEE private equity firm Penta Investments is seeking a new investor for its hospital division, Penta Hospitals International (PHI), and aims to launch a process with investment memorandums (IMs) out by the end of February, investment director Václav Jirků tells HBI. He discusses the reason for the sale, including international expansion, and the current political turmoil surrounding Penta and its healthcare business.
February 11, 2021

$3bn Imaging AI sector will re-shape industry after watershed 2019/20

Imaging AI solutions which can read images just as well as radiologists are now demonstrably effective medical products that will revolutionise the medical imaging industry forever. $1.5bn in VC funding has been ploughed into companies developing solutions whose tech promises to transform diagnosis and improve operational efficiency. We talk to seven of them who've commercialised products in 2019/20, operators using them, and look at the sector in detail in this long-read feature.
January 21, 2021

Interview: Arjan Toor, CEO, Cigna Europe

Cigna now describes itself as “a global health service company” rather than an insurer and has reorganised its European operations. Toor has recently been promoted to CEO Europe. He says that the insurer, which has 15% (US$840m) of its revenue in Europe, doesn't want to verticalise through owning primary care providers but wants instead to provide an end-to-end user experience.
July 21, 2020

Ribera Salud CEE head talks to HBI about acquisition and strategy

Spanish hospital PPP operator Ribera Salud acquired its first hospital in CEE late last year, buying the bariatric-focused OB Klinika in Prague through its Slovakian subsidiary Pro Diagnostic Group (PDG). We asked its head of CEE if the acquisition could help it bid for potential privatisations in Czechia. 
January 29, 2020

Penta hospital sale looks less likely

The failure of Slovakian opposition parties to build a coalition or push through a bill banning verticalisation in healthcare could make a minority sale of Penta Investments's CEE hospital business PHI less likely.
December 5, 2019

€10bn battle of the labs as Unilabs and Synlab mull 2020 sales

Europe's largest lab groups could both sell in 2020, with Apax appointing Rothschild to explore a sale of Unilabs while Synlab's majority owner Cinven is also weighing up an exit. The sale values including debt could potentially reach €10bn combined.
November 15, 2019

Exclusive: Change at the top at Unilabs

Jos Lamers, 55, the man widely seen as the architect of modern-day Unilabs is moving away from a full-time role at the Pan-European lab and imaging platform, HBI can exclusively reveal. So what lies behind the move and who succeeds him as CEO?
October 14, 2019
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