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Game on! Healthscope’s Japanese lender sells debt; eyes on HMC Capital

Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has run out of patience with Australia’s second-largest hospital group Healthscope, sparking the first real shift in the debt stack’s ownership after a year of tense negotiations with its $1.6 billion lender syndicate.

David Di Pilla, managing director, HMC Capital, says the private hospital funding model is broken. Flavio Brancaleone

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