We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search […]
It’s been a bumpy road for Envision Healthcare (NYSE: EVHC). The company went public in 2013, with revenues of $3.7 million. In 2018, it is going private with KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR), with revenues of $8.0 billion. In 2014, Envision operated American Medical Response, Inc., an air ambulance company; EmCare Holdings, provider of physician practice management […]
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) does a lot of business with private equity firms, but usually as an acquirer, not a seller. In August 2015, Cardinal acquired NaviHealth from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for $290 million. In June 2018, it sold a 55% stake in NaviHealth to Clayton, Dublier & Rice for an undisclosed amount. Cardinal’s initial […]
Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE: JNJ) selling spree continued with the divestiture of LifeScan, Inc. for $2.1 billion. LifeScan is a leader in blood glucose monitoring products, serving approximately 20 million patients globally in more than 90 countries. LifeScan markets blood glucose monitoring systems for home and hospital use under the global brand, One Touch. The […]
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon last week sold its advanced sterilization products (ASP) business to Fortive Corporation (NYSE: FTV) for $2.7 billion. The ASP business is a global provider of innovative sterilization and disinfection solutions. It generated adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 25% (unaudited) in 2017. Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company […]
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has a strong healthcare portfolio, filled with digital health, population health management and physician practices. On June 6, the private equity firm added another physician group, Paladina Health, for a reported $100 million. It’s not surprising that the bidding was “highly competitive,” according to a CNBC source, and that there were […]
We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search […]
Yes, the B-word is being bandied about among deal makers these days. Talk of a bubble, particularly in healthcare services, is becoming more open. We heard it often at a recent breakfast meeting of healthcare investors, and again and again in conversations since. In May, some 130 transactions were made public, representing a 26% decline […]
It just might be “the pause that refreshes.” Or it could be the beginning of a painful contraction in the hospital market. In the first five months of 2018, 34 deals—representing definitive agreements and closures—have been announced. That’s the same number reported in the first five months of 2017. The difference lies behind the number […]
We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search […]
