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Gareth James
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Brookfield Likely to Acquire Healthscope

We recommend shareholders in narrow-moat rated Healthscope do nothing following Brookfield’s new indicative and conditional takeover offer for the company. Brookfield plans to offer Healthscope shareholders AUD 2.55 per share under a Scheme of Arrangement with the option to receive proceeds in either cash or shares in a new unlisted entity that will own Healthscope. In addition, Healthscope shareholders would receive the AUD 3.5 cent unfranked interim dividend, which lifts the total value of the...
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Healthscope Ltd.

Healthscope is a private healthcare provider, with 45 private hospitals and 48 medical centres and skin clinics across Australia, as well as 56 international pathology laboratories. Co. is also a provider of pathology services in New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. Co.'s reportable segments are Hospitals Australia, which provides management and surgical and non-surgical private hospitals; Pathology New Zealand, which provides pathology services in New Zealand; and Other, which provides pathology services in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam and practice management services in medical centres in Australia.

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