Deal(s) of the Week: Teva, Take Two
Debt has been a key deal driver this year, particularly in the hospital sector, where Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH), Quorum Health Corporation (NYSE: QHC) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC) are shedding less desirable assets. Joining them now is generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA), which is shouldering $35 billion of debt brought on by its $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan’s (NYSE: AGN) line of generics, announced in July 2015. The company hasn’t announced an acquisition since September 2016. What a difference a year makes, as generic drug prices have been squeezed and the company has been selling off non-core assets to pay down its... Read More »UPMC and PinnacleHealth Team Up
PinnacleHealth System wasted little time after the Federal Trade Commission blocked its merger with Penn State Hershey Medical Center in 2016. Since then, the central Pennsylvania system has announced the acquisition of five hospitals, with a total of 720 beds. Now, it’s the target in another in-state merger deal. Last March, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and PinnacleHealth signed a letter of intent to explore a merger. In mid-August, the parties announced they’d reached a definitive agreement on the deal. PinnacleHealth operates seven acute-care hospitals mainly in central Pennsylvania, with a total of 1,267 licensed beds. When it began working with UPMC... Read More »U.S. Hospital Deals Holding Steady
Seven months into 2017, hospital mergers and acquisitions in the United States are slow and on the smaller side. Even with Community Health System’s (NYSE: CYH) ongoing divestiture announcements, just 51 transactions have been announced through August 1. In all of 2016, 84 transactions for U.S. hospitals were announced. With five months to go, that’s a target this sector could meet or even surpass, but that’s not a very high bar to reach, considering there were 96 deals for U.S. hospitals announced in 2015. Spending on this year’s hospital deals has been anemic. Through August 1, almost $2.3 billion has been spent on mostly private hospital transactions, with the largest, at $1.4 billion,... Read More »Hospital Deals Rebound in May 2017
Hospital merger and acquisition activity was fairly quiet in the first four months of the year, totaling 24 deals that made to a definitive agreement or beyond. Then came May, with a combined total of 13 transactions announced in the first four weeks (through May 26). Deal volume in the hospital sector through May 26 now totals 37 transactions, targeting 79 hospitals with 13,854 beds. The nearly $2.3 billion combined spending includes the $1.4 billion just announced by Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW), which acquired the real estate assets of 10 acute care hospitals and one behavioral health facility (approximately 2,400 beds) belonging to IASIS Healthcare, a TPG portfolio company.... Read More »Schedule a demo
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