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 9, 2018 2:54 pm | Managed Care
The fourth quarter of 2017 will be remembered for some time to come, thanks to the game-changing deal announced between pharmacy/retailer CVS Health and Aetna, one of the largest managed care companies in the country. That was only one deal, of course, and there were... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 9, 2018 1:11 pm | Pharmaceuticals
The dam broke in the fourth quarter of 2017, and pharmaceutical deal makers began acquiring again. The Republican tax overhaul that lowered the tax rate for corporations’ repatriated cash was approved in December, spurring big drug companies to think about mergers and... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 9, 2018 1:00 pm | Private Equity, Rehabilitation
Alliance Physical Therapy Partners, a portfolio company of GPB Capital, added on to its growing rehabilitation platform last week. On February 9, its affiliate, Physical Therapy Management, LLC signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. operations of Agility... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 2, 2018 3:06 pm | Biotechnology
The Biotechnology sector roared to life in 2017, posting a record 209 transactions. That’s 20% higher than the 174 deals announced in 2016. The previous record for the sector was set in 2009, with 193 transactions announced in the space. Spending for those 209... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 2, 2018 1:51 pm | Behavioral Health Care
Deal activity in the Behavioral Health Care sector was consistent with most of the previous quarters. Although deal volume slipped 14% from the previous quarter, it rose 20% compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The fourth quarter’s total of 12 deals... Read More »