Baxter International Catches Cheetah Medical

Baxter International Catches Cheetah Medical

by | Sep 10, 2019 4:21 pm | Medical Devices

Baxter International (NYSE: BAX) has been quiet on the merger and acquisition front since January 2018. The deal drought ended on September 10, 2019 when the med-tech company announced its acquisition of Cheetah Medical, based in Newton Center, Massachusetts. Cheetah provides non-invasive fluid management monitoring technologies, designed for use in critical care, operating room and emergency department settings. Its technology is available in approximately 30 countries. The price for the privately held company was $190 million in cash upfront and an additional $40 million in clinical and commercial milestones. This acquisition boosts Baxter’s portfolio with a non-invasive... Read More »

Takeda Takes on Shire for $81.5 Billion

by | May 10, 2018 12:13 pm | Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma deals are back, more than ever. After six weeks of offers, refusals, talks and more, Japanese drug giant Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (OTCQB: TKPYY) reached an agreement to acquire Shire plc (NASDAQ: SHPG) for $81.5 billion, including assumed debt of $19.54 billion. It’s the largest healthcare deal announced ever, unless you count Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) hostile stalking of AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) through much of 2014, with bids reported to be around $118 billion. And we don’t. Looking back over past pharmaceutical deals (that closed), this takes the record from Pfizer, which announced its acquisition of Wyeth, Inc. for approximately $78.5 billion, including $10.5 billion... Read More »

Baxalta’s Predecessor Readies for the Spin Off

by | May 18, 2015 5:55 pm | Biotechnology

Baxter BioScience recently agreed to pay $900 million for the Oncaspar® product portfolio owned the Italian biopharma company, Sigma Tau Financiaria SpA. Oncaspar is a biologic used as part of a multi-agent chemotherapy regimen to treat lymphoblastic leukemia, and is marketed in the United States, Germany, Poland and certain other countries. In addition to the drug, Baxter BioScience also acquired another investigational biologic and an established oncology infrastructure with annual sales of approximately $100 million. Very soon, Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) plans to spin off Baxter BioScience into a new company called Baxalta Incorporated. This deal is a nice going-away present,... Read More »