The Priory goes Private (Equity): UK rehab clinics sold in £1bn deal

The Priory Group, operators of the UK’s best-known rehab clinics, has been bought by private equity outfit Waterland. Acadia, the American owners of the Group, confirmed the offload before US markets opened. It will merge the two businesses and create what Waterland say will be “Europe’s leading rehabilitation and mental health services providers” The deal […]
EU ambassadors approve provisional application of Brexit trade deal

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ambassadors of European Union governments in Brussels approved on Monday the provisional application from Jan 1, 2021 of the EU-Britain trade deal struck last week. “EU Ambassadors have unanimously approved the provisional application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement as of January 1, 2021,” the spokesman for the German EU Presidency […]