2019’s Biggest Healthcare Deals, by Sector
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 likely won’t top the record of 1,900-plus set in 2018. Thanks to the multi-billion-dollar deals announced in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical sectors, 2019 will set a new spending record. Preliminary data show $399.1 billion was spent on healthcare acquisitions last year, about 20% higher than in 2018. We expect that number to rise as we go through the year and the 10Ks and quarterly reports come out. It’s possible the... Read More »
Autism Therapy Tops PE’s List in December
A good number of behavioral health care deals have been announced in Decmeber 2019 and the majority of those target companies providing therapy services to individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Seven deals in the Behavioral Health Care sector are on the books mid-way through the month and five offer some form of applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy or services. The two remaining deals target companies specializing in residential substance abuse treatment and inpatient addiction and eating disorders for teens. Thomas H. Lee Partners announced the only deal to disclose a price. The firm paid $415 million (16.6x EBITDA) for Centria Healthcare, a... Read More »
Telehealth Deals Pick Up in 2019
Digital health is hot, if deal volume is any measure (and we think it is). By mid-November, some 195 transactions are already on the books. That total is sure to surpass the 204 deals announced in all of 2018, which set a new record. In our DealSearchOnline database, the eHealth sector has grown in scope from simply electronic health records and revenue cycle management deals to include artificial intelligence and blockchain transactions in recent years. Telehealth has been around for some time, with the earliest deal in our database recorded in 2001. But the technology didn’t really take off, deal-wise, until 2016, when the number of deals rose to six. That doesn’t sound like... Read More »
Autism Services Provider Goes to Golden Gate Capital
Another private equity firm has thrown its hat in the autism ring. Golden Gate Capital announced its acquisition of Invo Holdings, LLC from The Jordan Company. The Jordan Company and Invo’s management will retain minority ownership stakes in the business. Invo Holdings, based in Jamison, Pennsylvania, provides a range of multi-disciplinary, research-based therapy services to infants, toddlers and school-aged children with various developmental delays, including autism, in homes, at schools and in community-based centers across 27 states. It 2,500 clinicians include board-certified behavior analysts, registered behavioral technicians, speech-language pathologists, occupational and... Read More »
More Competition Coming in Behavioral Health Care
It’s been a wild ride in recent years. Merger and acquisition activity in the Behavioral Health Care sector soared to a record 91 transactions in 2018, an increase of 264% over 2014 (25 deals) and up 60% compared with 2017 (57 deals). The majority of the 2018 deals—63%, in fact—were made by private equity firms or their portfolio companies. For the record, PE firms accounted for 46% of all acquisitions and 24% of the spending in the nine healthcare services sectors last year. M&A in this sector hasn’t been as robust in 2019. With 50 deals reported through the first week in September, the sector isn’t likely to see another 40 announced by the end of the year. One reason for the slowing... Read More »Schedule a demo
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