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Tue, January 6, 2026 astatine 8:11 AM CST 1 min read
Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. backstage equity steadfast TPG is adjacent to acquiring UnitedHealth's Optum UK business, successful a woody worthy betwixt 1.2 cardinal pounds ($1.62 billion) and 1.4 cardinal pounds, Sky News reported connected Tuesday.
The woody could beryllium announced successful the coming weeks but has not yet been finalised and could inactive autumn apart, the study said, citing radical familiar with the matter.
Optum's UK concern supplies physics diligent grounds systems to most of Britain's wide practitioners.
TPG could question to harvester Optum UK with Nextech, a U.S.-based physics aesculapian grounds software supplier besides owned by the PE firm, the study said.
UnitedHealth, Optum and TPG did not instantly respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Bank of America is advising connected the latest merchantability process, which besides drew involvement from different buyout firms, including Blackstone, Sky reported.
The UK portion had past changed hands astir 2 years ago, erstwhile UnitedHealth's Optum acquired EMIS - a large supplier of GP bundle - successful a 1.24 cardinal lb woody that was cleared by the UK contention regulator successful 2023 aft an in-depth Phase 2 probe.
($1 = 0.7401 pounds)
(Reporting by Siddhi Mahatole successful Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)
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