The year isn’t over yet, of course, but it’s time to begin gathering some stats for our year-end issue. It’s already fair to say that there were more billion-dollar-plus health care transactions announced this year than at any time since we began keeping records, in 1995.
So far, we’ve recorded 49 billion-dollar-plus transactions. Through November 10, their total is $330.6 billion. Even as busy as 2014 was for healthcare M&A (a record-breaker in deals and dollars), just 46 billion-dollar transactions were recorded, for a total of $325.2 billion. We’ll have more in the Health Care Deal News newsletter on Monday, November 16. Stay tuned.