HBI Deals+Insights / M&A/IPOs

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Europe's largest healthcare service companies are queueing up for the exit in 2014. Expect Apax-owned Capio, the Swedish, French, German, British hospital group, to seek an IPO in Sweden after the election. Euromedic, the Pan-European imaging services group, is also likely to IPO or go for a trade sale in the second half of 2013, as will Median Kliniken in Germany. Cinven-owned UK hospital chain Spire is veering towards a trade sale, but could also IPO. We look at prospects.

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