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Update: Billion-Dollar Health Care Deals, 2015

A recent post here noted there were more billion-dollar deals than in years past, and the amount was higher than any other year. Along comes the Pfizer-Allergan deal at $160 billion, and we have revised the numbers upward. The key takeaways: 51 billion-dollar-plus deals in 2015 (4% of the 1,282 total), with $549.4 billion spent on those deals (90% of the current $549.4 billion). We’ll have more in the December issue of Health Care M&A News. Read More »

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 »