19-Mar-19, Reuters
Columbia Pacific Management’s Asian hospital business has drawn interest from global private equity players including KKR, CVC and Carlyle, in a sale the US investment company sees fetching about USD2 bn.
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Columbia Asia is offering a portfolio of 30 mid-sized medical facilities, mainly in India and Malaysia, where healthcare spending is growing rapidly.
A successful deal would make it the biggest transaction in Southeast Asia’s hospital sector in nine years and one of the largest in Asia over the last decade.