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Bridget Carter has worked as a writer and editor for The Australian’s DataRoom column since it was launched in 2013, focusing on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and investment banking. She has been a journalist for more than 18 years, covering a broad range of events and topics, including high profile court cases and crimes, natural disasters, social issues and company news.

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Rearview shot of hospital staff wheeling a patient in a gurney down a corridor

Crunch time nearing for Healthscope

Brookfield’s next move for the embattled hospital group could be to place the business into voluntary administration.

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Media deals raise questions over Nine’s next move

The QMS takeover of Mediaworks and the outcome of CoStar’s Domain play will have big implications for industry peers.

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GLNG offer price unlikely to be enough to win Meridian CSG

Despite lodging a bid, Santos-backed Gladstone LNG might be out of the running to buy coal seam gas business Meridian because other suitors could make a better offer.

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A picture taken on August 21, 2016 shows the Japanese flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI

Dai-ichi deal fuels talk of Challenger takeover

The share purchase by the Japanese financial powerhouse could be the first step in a takeover of Challenger.

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Clinic Manager at Qscan Radiology Hobart, Trent Barter. Qscan Hobart will now provide undergo imaging with an advanced prostate cancer diagnostic known as Illuccix Â® . Picture: Supplied

Permira’s $3bn I-MED sale process springs back to life

The process for the country’s largest diagnostic imaging network stalled last year, but bidders are circling again.

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Stonepeak beats Williams, GIP in $5.7bn Woodside’s LNG deal

Infrastructure investor Stonepeak is understood to have fended off competition from Williams and GIP to acquire a 40 per cent interest in Woodside’s Louisiana-based LNG Infrastructure.

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Storage King sale poses questions over worth of Abacus demerger

Many in the market were reading the sale of Abacus Storage King to the interests of its key shareholder Nathan Kirsh and Public Storage as a concession that its demerger was the wrong call.

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