The Health Care M&A deals chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The M&A transactions presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated daily to provide our subscribers with the most up-to-date information and trends in the healthcare industry. To subscribe to our Health Care M&A deals chart and more, visit […]
After a year hiatus from the acquisition trail, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is back with a big deal. Earlier in March, the medical diagnostics company announced it was acquiring QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN) for $11.5 billion, or 23.8x EBITDA and 7.5x revenue. QIAGEN provides sample-to-insight solutions that transform biological materials into molecular insights […]
Although Covid-19 has brought the U.S. economy to a halt over the past few weeks, there is still some healthcare M&A activity to be found, even in the Home Health & Hospice sector. So far for the first quarter, 16 deals have been made public, compared with 21 for Q1: 2019, according to our Deal […]
When Mike Salvino took over as CEO of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) in September 2019, he announced during his first earnings call that the company was planning strategic alternatives, including the possible divesture of three of its non-core assets, which made up roughly 25% of the company’s revenue. One of those segments included its U.S. […]
BlueSprig Pediatrics, with the backing of KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR), has been an active player in the M&A field. Since BlueSprig was formed in October 2018, it has reported five behavioral health care transactions in three different states, according to our Deal Search Online database. Now it has a foothold in Florida. Last week […]
The hospital M&A market experienced some significant changes last year. In the United States, the rush to regionalize tapered off in 2019, after four years of multi-hospital transactions. The market for long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) was hopping, unfortunately driven by a couple of large bankruptcy proceedings. Deals either targeting or involving critical access hospitals […]
And in one fell swoop, Webster Equity Partners has formed a major physician group. The private equity firm announced in early March that it is acquiring and merging Retina Consultants of Houston, Retina Group of Florida, Long Island Vitreoretinal Consultants, and Retinal Consultants Serving Northern California to form Retina Consultants of America (RCA). The platform […]
The Health Care M&A deals chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The M&A transactions presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated daily to provide our subscribers with the most up-to-date information and trends in the healthcare industry. To subscribe to our Health Care M&A deals chart and […]
There’s no doubt it was an unusually slow February in the healthcare M&A market. Historically, the middle of Q1 tends to dip and then rebound by March, but with less than 100 deals on the books, the rapid spread of the coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to have undercut investor confidence, both big and small. And although […]
February was a modest month for Physician Medical Group deals. With seven on the books thus far (we expect more to pop up), it beat February 2019’s total by just one deal. However, M&A activity seems to be gaining steam in March, with a number of deals already announced, including two substantial physician groups down […]
