About Lisa Phillips
Lisa Phillips is an experienced Healthcare M&A Expert, B2B writer, research analyst, and journalist. She joined Irving Levin Associates in December 2012 as Editor of The Health Care Information Source and all its companion products, the weekly Health Care Deal News, the monthly Health Care M&A News, the quarterly Health Care M&A Report and annual Health Care Services Acquisition Report.
Lisa has more than 25 years of reporting, writing and researching content for trade publications such as Advertising Age, American Demographics, The American Lawyer and Folio:. She helped to launch a new line of business research at Gartner, Inc., as Editorial Director of GartnerG2. Her previous position was as a Senior Analyst at eMarketer, Inc.
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by Lisa Phillips | Jan 20, 2020 2:17 pm | Hospitals
The Hospital sector ended 2019 with 80 transactions in the United States reaching the definitive agreement stage or closing. All told, 99 hospital deals are on the books for the year, which is a 25% increase over 2018’s 79 hospital deals. For the fourth quarter... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Jan 20, 2020 11:41 am | Pharmaceuticals
The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco concluded last week with very few big deal announcements. In January 2019, Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) made its $74 billion takeover of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) public just before the... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Jan 13, 2020 4:37 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
December’s deal volume proved to be a fitting end to a busy year. With 148 deals already reported, the last month of the year easily topped November’s total of 136 (+9%) and even December 2018’s 142 deals (+4%). Deal makers were in a rush to close transactions by the... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Jan 13, 2020 4:20 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
Fourth quarter 2019 results will turn out to be a strong one. Deals are still being added, but the current total for Q4:19 is 430 transactions. That’s down about 6% compared with the third quarter’s 456 deals and 15% behind the same quarter in 2018, when 504 deals... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Jan 6, 2020 11:55 am | Behavioral Health Care, Biotechnology, eHealth, Home Health & Hospice, Hospitals, Laboratories, MRI & Dialysis, Long-Term Care, Managed Care, Medical Devices, Other Services, Pharmaceuticals, Physician Medical Groups, Rehabilitation
2020 has just begun, which means it’s time to look back at the healthcare M&A landscape of 2019. Just three days into the new year, nearly 1,780 deals are already on the books for 2019. More deals will turn up as we search our many sources, but the number... Read More »