Deals may have slowed since the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, but European healthcare remains an important target for private equity investors that want to capitalize on digitization, aging populations and market consolidation.
PE funds invested a total €37.4 billion (about $39.7 billion) across 364 healthcare deals in 2021 after COVID-19 exposed the vulnerabilities of a highly fragmented sector. Some of the biggest names in European PE such as EQT, Ardian and CVC were among the most active investors.
While dealmaking has lost some of its previous momentum—last year saw around €19.9 billion invested across 300 deals—the sector still attracts considerable amounts of PE investment, thanks to both growing demand for modernized healthcare services and the fact that it remains relatively insulated from economic downturns when compared to other sectors.
Here are the 10 most active PE investors in European healthcare from 2018-2022.
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