December 2018 Deal Flow Slowed

December 2018 Deal Flow Slowed

The jitters that rocked the U.S. equity markets in December 2018 took a toll on healthcare mergers and acquisitions. Deal volume slowed considerably, dropping 18% from the previous month, and landing 10% lower than a year ago. On a year-over-year basis, most of the services sectors posted losses. Managed Care (-75%), Rehabilitation (-67%), Hospitals (-64%) and Behavioral Health Care (-60%) led the way. Other Services, which includes urgent care and ambulatory surgery centers, went in the opposite direction. The sector posted a healthy  posting a healthy 58% gain over the previous December’s total. The technology sectors caught the same chill, with the exception of eHealth (+70% yoy).... Read More »
Health Care M&A Deals, December 17-28, 2018

Health Care M&A Deals, December 17-28, 2018

The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular sector of interest to your firm. Behavioral Health Care Acquirer Target Price Centerbridge Partners, L.P. Civitas Solutions, Inc. $1,400,000,000 The Carlyle Group LP Odyssey Behavioral Health, LLC $200,000,000 Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price Ocumension Therapeutics Exclusive territorial rights to NCX 470 $3,403,677... Read More »
Health Care M&A Deals, December 17-28, 2018

Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 14, 2018

The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular sector of interest to your firm. Biotechnology     Acquirer Target Price 10x Genomics Spatial Transcriptomics N/A Amgen, Inc. Research collaboration on inflammatory disease N/A Eli Lilly and Company License for tau aggregation inhibitor small molecules $130,452,560 eHealth     Acquirer Target Price GI... Read More »
Health Care M&A Deals, December 17-28, 2018

Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 7, 2018

The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular sector of interest to your firm. Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price Advanced Accelerator Applications S.A. License for FF-10158 N/A Biotage AB PhyNexus, Inc. $11,500,000 eHealth Acquirer Target Price ResMed, Inc. Propeller Health $225,000,000 Curavi Health Inc. TripleCare N/A Tabula Rasa HealthCare DoseMe N/A Enovation... Read More »
The Top 10 Healthcare Deals of 2018. So Far

The Top 10 Healthcare Deals of 2018. So Far

It’s been a busy year for healthcare deal makers, and it’s not over yet. With slightly more than 1,700 deals announced as we went to press, this year’s deal volume has already surpassed 2017’s 1,607 total. Dollar volume is on par with last year’s total of $316.3 billion. At the moment, 2018’s spend stands at $316.9 billion. We will likely see a few more big deals in the remaining weeks of December, just as in December 2017. That was the month that CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced their $77 billion tie-up, Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health made their mega-merger public, Optum (NYSE: UNH) announced its $4.9 billion acquisition of DaVita Medical Group (NYSE:... Read More »
Health Care M&A Deals, December 17-28, 2018

Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 30, 2018

The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular sector of interest to your firm.   Behavioral Health Care Acquirer Target Price Pharos Capital Group LLC ABA of North Texas N/A Discovery Behavioral Health Ambrosia Treatment Center NJ N/A Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price LGC North America Inc. SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. N/A BeiGene License to ZW25 and ZW49... Read More »