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Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending August 10, 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 Key Biologics Astarte Biologics N/A Astellas Pharma, Inc. Quethera N/A eHealth Acquirer Target Price DHS Group Connect N/A Global Payments Inc. AdvancedMD $700 million Home Health Care & Hospice Acquirer Target Price Simplura Health Group Helping... Read More »
July 2018 Health Care Deals Simmered
July’s deal volume beat the totals posted in July 2017, but didn’t quite match those posted the previous month. The healthcare merger & acquisition market is still going strong, in other words. Not too hot, no sign of getting cold. Preliminary deal volume in July reached 124 transactions, a 10% loss compared with June’s busy 138 transactions but 6% better than the same month in 2017. The services sectors accounted for 58% of the month’s total, but percentage was actually lower than in June, when services made up 62% of the total, and in July 2017, when services made up 67% of the month’s volume. Some sectors that out-performed both the previous month and... Read More »
Dermatology Drug Portfolios Trade Hands
Dermatology physician practics are all the rage among private equity groups these days. Thirty deals targeting this specialty have been announced in the first seven months of 2018. All have been acquired by a private equity firm or one of their platform companies. But in the first week of August, two international pharmaceutical companies acquired portfolios of dermatology brands from the likes of Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) and Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE). Barcelona-based Almirall, S.A. (MCE: ALM) was the only company to disclose a price in its announcement. It agreed to pay $550 million upfront for Allergan’s U.S. dermatology portfolio, and a possible earn-out of up to $100 million based on... Read More »
Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending August 3, 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 Century Park Capital Partners Dominion Youth Services N/A Universal Health Services, Inc. Danshell Group N/A Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic Merger Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price AbCellera Biologics, Inc. Lineage Biosciences N/A... Read More »
Marlin Equity Exits AdvancedMD
Marlin Equity Partners is parting ways with AdvancedMD Software, Inc. The exit was announced on August 2, 2018, almost three years to the day that Marlin announced its acquisition of the company on August 6, 2015. Private equity firms are trading healthcare tech and services companies with abandon these days, and there’ve been several take-private deals and carve-outs announced this year. The largest to date is KKR & Co.’s (NYSE: KKR) $9.9 billion deal for Envision Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: EVHC), but we can add Altaris Capital Partners’ $1.1 billion acquisition of medtech company Analogic Corporation (NASDAQ: ALOG), Platinum Equity’s $2.1 billion deal for Johnson... Read More »
Biogen’s $1 Billion Collaboration
The biggest biotechnology deal announced in July came from Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), which specializes in treatments for neurological, autoimmune and hematologic disorders. The company inked an exclusive, 10-year collaboration agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS) to develop novel antisense drug candidates for a broad range of neurological diseases. The price is a combination of $375 million upfront and $625 million to acquire approximately 11.5 million shares of Ionis’ common stock. Biogen may eventually pay development milestones of up to $125 million, or $270 million for each program, depending on the indication, and royalties on net sales. Biogen will have the... Read More »
MedReleaf Makes MED Colombia Deal
MedReleaf Corp. (TSX: LEAF) has a new South American subsidiary. The Markham, Ontario-based producer of cannabis-based pharmaceutical products, announced last week it has acquired MED Colombia SAS, in Bogota. The price was $3,120,000. MED Colombia has licenses in Colombia to cultivate cannabis and produce cannabis oil extracts, along with a library of cannabis genetics. With this acquisition, MedReleaf is able to produce low-cost, high quality raw materials to serve its global supply chain, as well as the domestic Colombian medical cannabis market. Colombia legalized medical cannabis in 2015, and MedReleaf has had a team operating there since 2017. On a trailing 12-month basis, MedReleaf... Read More »
Apothecare Pharmacy, LLC Acquired by Clearview and Starboard
Brockton, Massachusetts-based Apothecare Pharmacy, LLC has new owners. The institutional pharmacy was recently recapitalized by Clearview Capital Fund III, LP and Starboard Capital Partners, LLC. Financial terms were not disclosed. Apothecare targets the behavioral health sector in group homes and community-based settings in Massachusetts. The pharmacy’s primary patient base, which includes individuals with intellectual and development disabilities, has complex medication requirements. It serves more than 6,000 people in more than 700 group homes and other settings. Clearview and Starboard partnered with the Apothecare’s CEO and owner, Rudy Dajie, to recapitalize the business and... Read More »
