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Barrenjoey scrubs in to advise St Vincent’s Health for Healthscope

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

May 12, 2025 – 6.37pm

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HMC Capital may have dropped out of Healthscope’s $1.6 billion debt stack, but buyers for Australia’s second-largest private hospitals group are still on the scene.

Street Talk understands St Vincent’s Health, Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services with 12 public and private hospitals under its care, has brought in homegrown investment bank Barrenjoey Capital Partners to advise on a possible bid.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.