Private equity firms engaged in an unusual bidding battle this year: slugging it out over an upmarket chain of private hospitals in China.
TPG and a consortium that included Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, emerged the victor in the fight for US-listed Chindex International after sweetening its bid and shelling out $461m. Chinese media and people close to the deal named Carlyle as the rival bidder, although it declined to comment.
Chindex is the top of the pyramid of hundreds of potential private hospital deals, as investors chase a Chinese gold rush.
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