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 | Feb 16, 2018 3:21 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
A total of $114.4 billion was spent to fund the 377 transactions reported in Q4:17, based on disclosed prices. The Managed Care sector dominated the dollar side of deal making, accounting for 70% ($80.6 billion) of spending. A single deal accounted for 67% of the... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 16, 2018 2:58 pm | Hospitals, Private Equity
2018 is still quite young, as we are writing in mid-February. Fifteen hospital mergers or acquisitions have reached the definitive agreement stage, which is when we consider them far enough along to include in our DealSearchOnline.com database. (If the deal falls... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 16, 2018 11:21 am | Biotechnology, eHealth
Roche (SIX: RO) couldn’t let a good startup slip away. The Swiss drug maker announced it will pay $1.9 billion to keep New York City-based Flatiron Health, Inc. from going public. When it was founded in 2012, Flatiron’s goal was to gather and analyze data... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 13, 2018 2:45 pm | CRO, Private Equity
The CRO deals just keep coming. Four have been announced since the beginning of the year, targeting contract research organizations (CROs). The latest announcement came from Charles River Laboratories International (NYSE: CRL), which is paying $800 million for... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 9, 2018 4:31 pm | Healthcare Staffing, Other Services, Private Equity
Labor shortages for physicians and nurses may heat up the medical staffing market in 2018. Through the first 10 days of February, three transactions for these service companies have been announced. Last year, 16 transactions targeting medical staffing services were... Read More »