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Advent checks out of the Priory in €1.7bn deal

US healthcare group Acadia Healthcare has bought the Priory Group, which operates more than 300 sites across the UK, adding to the 54 facilities it already has in the UK. The deal marks an exit for private equity firm Advent, which acquired the group for £925m in 2011 from a consortium of investors including the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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