Investors Make Many, Many Small Bets in March 2017

They don’t call it March Madness for nothing. After a few months of slowing merger and acquisition activity, deal volume spiked back to 2016 levels. The 139 deals announced in March 2017 were only 4% below the 145 deals announced in March 2016, when healthcare M&A was barrelling along. Deal volume was 46% higher than the previous month’s 95 transactions, but that’s not a fair comparison. February is the shortest month, and March always seems to drag on and on. Besides, the early days of the Trump administration were (and still are) tempestuous, to say the least. March 2017’s increase in activity may be a signal that investors are just going to get on with their plans, or it may be they... Read More »