IPO-bound Manipal Health Enterprises is leading the race to acquire Sahyadri Hospitals with a Rs 6,838 crore ($800 million) bid, people familiar with the matter said. It is trailed closely by Blackstone, they said.While the sources did not reveal the financial terms of the global investment firm鈥檚 offer, the strong interest in the Pune-headquartered hospital chain owned by Canada鈥檚 pension fund Ontario Teachers鈥 Pension Plan (OTPP) is symptomatic of the high-intensity consolidation ongoing in India鈥檚 hospital space. IHH Healthcare-backed Fortis Healthcare and EQT Partners also submitted bids on June 23, which was the last day to submit binding financial bids.鈥楿ncompetitive鈥 OffersTheir offers were termed 鈥渦ncompetitive鈥 by people ET spoke with. Manipal, Blackstone, Fortis and OTPP declined to comment. EQT did not responded to ET鈥檚 queries until press time Sunday.OTPP acquired Sahyadri from Everstone Capital in August 2022 at a valuation of around Rs 2,500 crore, outbidding Max Healthcare. Everstone had bought the hospital chain three years earlier in 2019 from its founder, neurosurgeon Charudutt Apte, for about Rs 1,000 crore. ET first reported on December 6 last year that OTPP was planning to put Sahyadri Hospitals on the block. In May, ET reported that Manipal Health, Singapore鈥檚 IHH Healthcare, Blackstone-owned hospital chain Quality Care India, KKR & Co and EQT Partners were among those that had submitted initial bids for it.Live EventsSahyadri Hospitals operates 11 facilities across Pune, Nashik, Ahilya Nagar and Karad, comprising 1,300 beds, 2,500 clinicians and 3,500 support staff, according to information available on its website. Sahyadri Hospitals is estimated to have posted Rs 210 crore in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation on revenue of Rs 1,200 crore in FY25, said a fund manager at one of the bidding private equity funds.Foothold in Western IndiaFor Manipal Health, commonly known as Manipal Hospitals, the deal could provide a muchneeded strategic foothold in western India, where it currently lacks a significant presence. In June 2025, KKR invested $600 million in debt into the Manipal Group to support its accelerated expansion and corporate growth plans.The IPO-bound Manipal Hospitals, the second-largest hospital chain in India, has been on an aggressive acquisition spree. In 2023, it acquired an 84% stake in Kolkata-based AMRI Hospitals in a deal valued at Rs 2,400 crore. Two years earlier, it bought Columbia Asia’s Indian operations for Rs 2,100 crore.(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel)
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