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Stat of the Week: December 2017 +23%
Talk about saving the best for last. For months, deal volume has stagnated, slipped, and failed to excite. Then December happened. Six deals with prices over $1 billion were announced, and their combined value was $91.7 billion. Of course, the CVS/Aetna (NYSE: CVS/AET) deal accunted for most of that, at $77 billion. But what counts is that these deals showed the game is changing in the healthcare market, and market forces and investors are working outside the usual Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement policies. Let’s start with December’s deal volume. At 121 transactions (so far, more will undoubtedly be added), the total is up 23% compared with November’s 98 transactions, but 5% lower than the... Read More »
Q4:17 Redefined Healthcare M&A
Despite all the big deals announced in December, the fourth quarter of 2017 wasn’t one for the record books. Merger and acquisition activity was busy, but compared with the previous quarter and the same period in 2016, the pace wasn’t frenetic. Our preliminary data shows 357 transactions were announced in Q4:17, down a slight 4% compared with the third quarter of 2017, and down 8% versus the fourth quarter of 2016. Dollar volume, on the other hand, was quite high. Preliminary data (again) shows nearly $114.3 billion was spent in Q4:17, a 165% gain over Q3:17, and nearly 200% over Q4:16. That total rests largely on the back of a single deal, which you’ve probably heard... Read More »
Deal of the Week: UnitedHealth Buys Banmedica SA
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) wasted no time dwelling on its recent acquisition of DaVita Medical Group (NYSE: DVA) for $4.9 billion. On December 22, the healthcare giant announced its acquisition of Chilean healthcare company Banmedica SA (SSE: SGO) for $2.8 billion. Banmeica sells health insurance, operates hospitals and provides other services. It generated approximately $2.1 billion in revenue last year and has operations in Chile, Columbia and Peru. UnitedHealth is looking to grow in emerging and established global healthcare markets where it can leverage its expertise as both an insurer and a provider of medical care. The transaction enables Banmedica to leverage United... Read More »
Top 10 Health Care Deals of 2017
“Variety” best describes the top 10 healthcare deals announced in 2017. The target companies spanned sectors from Biotechnology and Medical Devices to Managed Care and Other Services. You know the healthcare game is changing when just a single pharmaceutical target made the list in 2017, compared with six of the top 10 deals in 2015. The 10 largest deals total $182.1 billion, and account for 59% of the year’s preliminary deal value total of approximately $310.7 billion. In 2016, the top-10 accounted for 51% of the year’s $256.7 billion in spending. In 2017, a Managed Care target was again the largest target of the year. Unlike in 2o15, when the Big Five managed care companies... Read More »Health Care M&A Weekly Deals, The Week Ending January 5, 2018
We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search Online. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to open a guest account and begin your search. Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price Pfizer Inc. Collaboration on PROTACs N/A Roche Research collaboration on novel bispecific molecule $10 million Biocrates Life Sciences AG Metanomics Health GmbH N/A Reckitt... Read More »
Behavioral Health Care Deal Trends in 2017
The Behavioral Health Care sector has enjoyed growing interest from private equity and other investors in recent years. Federal legislation regarding coverage of mental health conditions certainly boosted that interest, as has the growing public acceptance of the magnitude of need for services. Also, the fragmented nature of this sector has kept platform-building acquisitions rather low. From a focus standpoint, behavioral health care covers mental health issues, as well as substance abuse, eating disorders, autism spectrum services and care for individuals with developmental disabilities. Co-morbidities often exist, particularly between mental health and substance abuse conditions. Then... Read More »
Deal of the Week: Prelude Fertility/Vivere Health
Two fertility clinics are banking on growth through acquisitions. At least, their investors are. Miami, Florida-based Prelude Fertility last week announced its acquisition of Vivere Health, LLC, a portfolio company of LLR Partners. Franklin, Tennessee-based Vivere operates fertility practices and labs in partnership with fertility specialists in nine U.S. markets. Since its founding in 2010, it has partnered with fertility specialists to promote or establish their practices while removing the burdens of day-to-day management. It also has egg banking services and a mail-order pharmacy. Prelude Fertility is a reproductive science and technology company. It operates fertility treatment... Read More »
Stat of the Week: Healthcare M&A Spending up 18% in 2017
The year hasn’t ended, and there are still two weeks to go in the fourth quarter of 2017. The holidays are already under way, with more on the horizon. Before we get too busy, here’s a quick look at where things stand in mid-December. Total healthcare mergers and acquisitions reached 1,467 deals as of December 14. That’s only 7% lower than the combined total for all of 2016, at 1,574 deals. Spending on these transactions is already higher. This year’s dollar volume currently stands at approximately $303.9 billion, up 18% compared with last year’s total of $256.7 billion. Much of the credit for the spending rise goes to the largest single transaction announced... Read More »
Stryker Buys Entellus Medical
Deals for medical device companies in 2017 are keeping pace with the previous year’s deal volume, more or less. With two weeks left in the year, 107 transactions in the Medical Device category have been announced and about $48.0 billion in spending. Deal volume is 5% lower than the 113 transactions announced for all of 2016 in this sector. The dollar volume is 22% lower than last year’s $61.8 billion. The latest deals announced in December include Stryker Corp.’s (NYSE: SYK) $709.6 million acquisition of Entellus Medical (NASDAQ: ENTL), a global medical technology company focused on delivering superior patient and physician experiences through products designed for the... Read More »Schedule a demo
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