KKR has bought a majority stake in Spain's biggest dental chain Dentix, eight months after founder Angel Lorenzo Muriel mandated Rothschild to explore a minority sale.
Spain's largest private hospital group Quironsalud, part of Fresenius Helios, has signed an agreement to acquire a substantial private hospital in Colombia as part of its continuing investment in the country.
Three Spanish-headquartered companies are set to combine following their acquisition by mid-market investment bank and asset management firm Alantra Private Equity.
DomusVi, one of the top three Spanish providers of psychiatric care by revenue, has expanded its outpatient services by acquiring a portfolio of four day-centres in Madrid.
Spanish real-estate investor Azora created a listed healthcare investment arm, Adriano Care, this summer. The REIT has just acquired its first assets and plans to invest €250m in Spanish senior residential care. We speak to Azora's head of senior housing, Carlos Fernández de Araoz, about the market, business strategy and future plans for Adriano.
Retail healthcare investors who have seen the European veterinary space undergo an eight-year period of rapid practice consolidation by private-equity backed groups are beginning to look at dentistry. Will yesterday's investors in vets tomorrow invest in dentists? HBI chats to Mansfield Advisors to find out more about how dentistry could be at a price tipping point that will favour big consolidators.
New Spanish REIT Adriano Care, created by real-estate investor Azora, has acquired six nursing home facilities and a plot for a seventh as part of the deployment of its €250m fund which will invest in the Spanish residential care sector. We speak to the head of senior housing at Azora.
We talk to Albert Fernandez, former managing director for Healthcare Services in Europe at advisory firm PJT Partners and now CEO of Spain's largest healthcare property investor Healthcare Activos. In this wide-ranging interview, he shares his thoughts on fixed rental inflators, the Spanish market, and the internationalisation of Europe's hospital sector.
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.
Following the news last month that the largest fertility company in the world by revenue, Spanish-based IVIRMA is looking for an "economic partner" through Morgan Stanley, speculation is mounting that the company plans to IPO once its new partner is onboard.
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