Healthscope Suitors Raise Takeover Bid to $1.82 Billion |
| Healthscope Ltd.’s (HSP), Australia’s second largest hospital has been offered $1.82 billion, or $5.75 per share, from private equity to buy the business. Healthscope shares traded below the offer price as directors consider the proposal which suggest the market believes the deal will not proceed. Healthscope is spending more than $240 million adding over 580 hospital beds and 24 operating theatres as Australian private health coverage continues to grow. They currently run the Gribbles pathology chain in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and Mauritius. they also own or operate 43 hospitals in Australia, including the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and Melbourne Private Hospital. |
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