Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy

The Burnratty Investment Group is a Kampala-based investment group. We partner with established private hospitals and medical practices in Uganda and across East Africa when the owners want a long-term home for the business they built.

We do not arrive to strip a name off the door. We acquire to strengthen what already works: clinical reputation, local leadership, and the trust of the community the facility already serves.

What we look for

We seek licensed, operating healthcare businesses with a clear service role in their catchment — hospitals, specialist centres, and established medical practices. Conversations typically begin with owners who are thinking about succession, growth capital, or a partner that can professionalise the back office without taking the practice away from the people who run it.

Each opportunity is reviewed on its own merits. We do not publish a public pricing formula. Terms are agreed privately, after both sides have had the room to understand the business.

How a partnership is structured

Transactions are designed so the practice can keep moving. In most cases:

Local clinical and operational leadership remains in place.
The brand patients already know is respected through the transition.
Ownership can be majority, or staged, depending on what the seller needs.
Founders who want to stay invested can remain as shareholders and operators.

Close follows confirmatory review of licences, clinical quality, financial records, and legal standing. We work through counsel. Confidentiality is treated as a condition of the conversation, not a courtesy after the fact.

What changes after close

The point of a group is not to replace the doctor or the matron. It is to give a good facility the support a standalone owner often cannot build alone:

Finance, reporting, and working-capital discipline
Procurement and vendor management
Governance, compliance, and licence hygiene
A path to digital records, referral coordination, and better patient flow
Workforce development for nurses, clinicians, and administrators

Facilities that join the group become part of Burnratty Healthcare over time. The pace of any name or system change is agreed with local leadership. Continuity of care comes first.

How we build the platform

East Africa’s private healthcare market is still fragmented. Capable facilities sit beside one another with separate buying, separate systems, and no shared clinical backbone. Our work is to bring willing operators into one professionally run platform — site by site, on terms that protect patients and staff.

Growth is deliberate. We add facilities where they strengthen a catchment and where integration can be done properly. A larger regional platform is the destination. A well-run first cluster is the method.

Every transaction is conducted to legal and ethical standards. We will not ask a seller to move faster than the licence, the accounts, and the clinical file will support.

Community obligation

Healthcare assets carry a public duty. Through the Burnratty Foundation we support community health, scholarships, and youth development in the areas where the group operates. Commercial partnership and community responsibility are not separate stories.

Start a confidential conversation

If you own or advise a hospital or practice and want a discreet discussion — sale, succession, or a growth partnership — write to us. We will tell you quickly whether there is a fit, and we will not use your name in any materials without consent.

Email: contact@tbig.ltd
Kampala