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Hospital operator Healthscope has collapsed into receivership owing $1.4bn, vowing to keep its doors open as the 37 hospital-strong business faces the prospect of being broken up when sold.

Meanwhile, DataRoom reports Macquarie Group and Calvary Health Care are interested in buying Healthscope assets, as potential bidders start pairing up with investment banks.

And Richard White-led WiseTech will borrow $3.25bn to take over New York-listed logistics software company e2open as it deepens its US expansion and attempts to move on from the sex scandal which rocked the tech titan.

Vesna Poljak
Business Editor
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