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Big Year for Billion-Dollar Health Care Deals

The year isn’t over yet, but it’s time to gather some stats for our year-end issue. It’s already fair to say that there were more billion-dollar-plus health care transactions announced this year than at any time since we began keeping records, in 1995. So far, we’ve recorded 50 billion-dollar-plus transactions. Through November 13, their total is $333.3 billion. Even as busy as 2014 was for healthcare M&A (a record-breaker in deals and dollars), just 46 billion-dollar transactions were recorded, for a total of $325.2 billion. (Note: Beginning in Q3:12, only upfront payments were recorded as the price of the deal, without contingent payments. The data below has been adjusted accordingly... Read More »

2015: A Big Year for Billion-Dollar Health Care Deals

The year isn’t over yet, of course, but it’s time to begin gathering some stats for our year-end issue. It’s already fair to say that there were more billion-dollar-plus health care transactions announced this year than at any time since we began keeping records, in 1995. So far, we’ve recorded 49 billion-dollar-plus transactions. Through November 10, their total is $330.6 billion. Even as busy as 2014 was for healthcare M&A (a record-breaker in deals and dollars), just 46 billion-dollar transactions were recorded, for a total of $325.2 billion. We’ll have more in the Health Care Deal News newsletter on Monday, November 16. Stay tuned. Read More »

Foreign Hospital Deals Keep Coming

Hospital mergers and acquisitions are interesting to a local media audience, we know. But the foreign deals that are announced should be of interest to global investors. We reported the $2.3 billion Al Noor Hospitals Group plc (LSE: AHN) acquisition in Abu Dhabi by South Africa’s Mediclinic International Ltd. two weeks ago. Now there’s Max Healthcare’s 51% stake in an adjacent hospital in New Delhi, India, for an undisclosed price. Smart Health City Pte Ltd., part of the Singapore-based BK Modi Group, sold the majority interest in its Saket City Hospital Private Limited (230 beds, in the process of expanding to 300 beds) to Max Healthcare, which owns the Max Super... Read More »