(Adds Carlyle declined to comment, Goldman's role)
HONG KONG, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Private equity firms Carlyle Group LP CG.O and TPG Capital Management TPG.UL are selling their entire remaining stake in Australian healthcare operator Healthscope Ltd HSO.AX in a deal worth about $612 million, IFR reported on Monday, citing a source close to the deal.
Carlyle and TPG are offering 308.2 million shares at a fixed price of A$2.77 each, putting the total deal at about A$853.7 million ($612 million), added IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication. The stake accounts for 17.8 percent of Healthscope's shares.
TPG and Carlyle declined to comment on the stake sale.
Goldman Sachs (N:GS) is advising on the deal, IFR added. ($1 = 1.3935 Australian dollars)