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...“Centene has found it difficult to make Operose profitable because many Operose sites are in generally less affluent areas where recruiting GPs has been difficult,” said Victor Chua of Mansfield Advisors...
...These types of firms also became the only option when overleveraged companies needed to refinance their debt, à la Finastra and KKR-backed veterinary hospital operator PetVet....
...Once-high flying institutions such as Credit Suisse, First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank crumbled and a drought of deals has caused mass investment banking lay-offs....
...JPMorgan’s acquisition was a capstone by Wall Street’s most senior banker during an acquisition binge in which the bank made 80 strategic investments and acquisitions in 2021 and 2022....
...Moelis has hired about a dozen tech bankers from failed Silicon Valley Bank, according to people familiar with the matter, reducing its need to strike a deal....
...There can be only one victor,” said Cameron Hudson, a former chief of staff to US special envoys for Sudan, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies....
...Sometimes part of the acquisition cost is allocated to the company purchased.”...
...Private acquisition of ambulances has been found to deliver lower wait-times but at a higher risk of death....
...Japan’s Astellas Pharma is to buy US biotech Iveric Bio for $5.9bn, its largest-ever acquisition which gives it access to the rapidly growing market for age-related eye diseases....
...Debt derby In Silicon Valley where venture capital funds have dried up, the race to clinch alternative financing deals is on, the FT reports....
...What EY failed to find was the subject of this investigation from the FT’s Dan McCrum, Victor Mallet and Leila Abboud....
...Bonnefoy, who also works as a nurse at the local hospital, remarks wryly on the ability these days of Le Pen’s supporters to campaign unmolested in what used to be a solidly leftwing town....
...Private markets adviser Hamilton Lane has appointed Victor Jung, formerly a senior adviser at Partners Group, to the newly created role of head of digital assets....
...Since its founding, iFood has raised about $700mm in funding and made nine acquisitions. It began deliveries in 2018; before then restaurants were responsible....
...Private equity group KKR, which last week launched a €33bn takeover offer for the ailing telecoms group, will have to win over Vivendi, which already believes the acquisition price is too low, as well as...
...experience of owning private hospitals in Europe....
...It booked £2.8m of merger and acquisition costs largely relating to the attempted takeover bid by Ramsay Health Care, which shareholders rejected in July....
...Smart reads Alexa, pass the scalpel A tie-up between Amazon and hospitals is just one way in which Big Tech is encroaching on the healthcare sector....
...Victor Chua, consultant at Mansfield Advisers, described Ramsay’s purchase as a “smart move” for the group, which receives 80 per cent of earnings from the NHS, as it would give the Australian company access...
...In 2016, Helios acquired Spain’s largest private hospital operator, Quirónsalud, for almost €6bn from private equity group CVC Capital Partners and founder Víctor Madera, whom Mr De Meo says he won over...
...It owns a pharmacy benefit manager, surgical hospitals and other healthcare businesses. Jamie Smyth in New York 12....
...Special purpose acquisition companies, or Spacs, struck $109bn worth of deals globally last month alone, according to Refinitiv data....
...Stripe’s acquisition of Paystack is a sign of the dam breaking, he adds....
...He hauled it to Donegal Animal Hospital, which served thousands of animal owners around the town of Letterkenny. But treatment was not forthcoming there....
...Deals include Silicon Valley giant Stripe’s $200m acquisition of local payments company Paystack in October, and nearly $400m into three fintech start-ups in a single week in 2019....
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