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...Mitsui’s bet on healthcare has resulted in investments in Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare and Singapore-based DaVita Care, a subsidiary of Berkshire-backed dialysis clinic operator DaVita in the US....
...Lenhard was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs where he focused on European healthcare companies....
...As one rival hedge fund manager quips: “Just because Louis Armstrong could play the trumpet doesn’t mean he would be good at the cello.”...
...Constellation Brands, the beer and wine group, and DaVita Healthcare Partners, the kidney dialysis group, also feature in the top 10....
...“Self-driving cars basically work today,” says Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “The challenge is cultural and regulatory.”...
...Abingworth, the specialist life sciences and healthcare investment group has appointed Kurt von Emster as a partner, effective from January....
...The filing also revealed that Mr Buffett has slashed his stake in GlaxoSmithKline, the UK-listed pharmaceuticals company, and increased his holdings in Davita Healthcare Partners, a Colorado hospitals group...
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...The deal would signal fresh consolidation in the fast-growing dialysis market, which includes such other leading companies as DaVita and Fresenius....
...DaVita’s deal is expected to close during the fourth quarter of the year and the combined company will be called DaVita HealthCare Partners....
...US dialysis clinic operator DaVita is to acquire HealthCare Partners, which operates physician groups in several US states, for $4.42bn, reports the FT....
...The companies likely to be competing for the final stage of the contract are all large non-UK corporations: Davita of the US, Fresenius Medical Care of Germany and Diaverum of Sweden....
...The company said it will buy out the partner in its Mexico unit for $760m....
...Its biggest rival DaVita serves approximately 128,000 dialysis patients....
...Pfizer moved swiftly on Monday to name George Lorch, a long-standing director from outside the healthcare sector, as its first non-executive chairman following the abrupt departure of its chief executive...
...Maureen Chiquet, Chanel Inc Global CEOSince 2007, previously Chanel US president from 2004. Vivendi board....
...He is a director of Perini Corporation, Analysts International Corporation, and DaVita Inc, as well as two non-profit boards. • SourceFire has appointed John C. Burris as its CEO....
...The higher bid was kept in place by the Wallenbergs despite broader market weakness and the loss of the DaVita contract....
...DaVita, which provides dialysis services in the US, said on Tuesday it had cancelled its contract with Gambro following a US ban on Gambro’s dialysis equipment over safety concerns....
...This catapults FMC back to number one in the world’s largest healthcare market, ahead of DaVita, which in December agreed to pay $3bn for the US dialysis clinics of Sweden’s Gambro....
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