Shares in Finnish outsourcing specialist Pihlajalinna have crashed 25% on the news that the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (FCCA) has recommended that the country's Market Court block its takeover by CVC-backed competitor Mehilainen.
We talk to two of the world's largest investors in emerging market health care about Covid's likely impact. Despite so far much lower death rates, the initial effect on health care operators has been worse than in Europe. Covid is set to destroy several motors for growth such as healthcare tourism and the deployment of […]
The COVID-19 epidemic may see commercial disputes regarding NHS UK outsourcing deals and increased litigation against care homes and hospitals from relatives of deceased loved ones, partners at law firm Addleshaw Goddard tell HBI. This is likely to be true across geographies.
An exclusive analysis by Chinese insurance giant Ping An suggests COVID-19 cases could reach a turning point in the next few days, hitting the peak of new confirmed cases by later this week / early April, with that figure set to fall thereafter.
In the second of our two-part deep dive into how COVID-19 is hitting healthcare markets across EMEA, we ask how hospitals are coping with spiralling staff sickness and a flood of patients, and whether the care and dialysis sectors can stay afloat given the risk the virus poses to their most vulnerable patients.
Life Healthcare confirmed last week that it was looking to exit its Polish hospital business, Scanmed, citing further regulatory changes. Other investors are also looking to leave the country and assets that were expected to sell remain unsold. What went wrong in a market we once described as "stuff as dreams are made of"?
As first speculated by HBI last year, Finnish health and social care provider Mehiläinen has offered to buy competitor Pihlajalinna. We talk to Mehiläinen CEO Janne-Olli Järvenpää and local sources about integrating the two companies, competition concerns, the possibility of a bidding war and international expansion, which Järvenpää gives HBI exclusive details on.
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.
After 19 years as a health care services expert working as an investment banker, analyst and consultant, Martin Brunninger has returned to his native Austria to become director-general for healthcare and social care. In this role, he is responsible for reforming the entire health and social care system under the new reformist conservative coalition government which came to power in December 2017 and is likely to hold power for a few years. We talk to Brunninger about the likely changes and his change in role.
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