HMC's private equity 'Plan B' for Healthscope comes into shape
Ramsay Healthcare and St John of God Health Care have emerged as potential players in the race to save Healthscope.
David Di Pilla's HMC Capital is in the early stages of putting together a private equity 'plan B 'for the struggling, Brookfield-owned private hospital operator Healthscope. The question many are asking in dealmaking circles is who else will be involved.
Two sources with knowledge of the matter told Capital Brief that HMC had been busy sounding out potential partners in the market, with managing director Di Pilla casting the net far and wide amongst health providers, private capital and other relevant parties for a potential intervention.
Sources said private hospital operators Ramsay Healthcare and St John of God Health Care could emerge as players in the Di Pilla-led consortium as operators of hospitals in HealthScope's portfolio, should a deal be worked out.
Ramsay didn't respond to a request for comment, while St John of God declined to comment.
