Deals
Mitsui Weighs Buyout of $11 Billion IHH Healthcare
- Private equity firms approaching Mitsui to team up on bid
- Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund is second largest shareholder
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Mitsui & Co. is exploring a deal to take Malaysian hospital group IHH Healthcare Bhd. private, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Some private equity firms have approached the Japanese trading house to team up on the potential transaction to buy out IHH’s other shareholders, said one of the people, who asked not to be named as the information is private. Mitsui has reached out to Khazanah Nasional Bhd., IHH’s second largest shareholder, to pick up its stake, another person said.