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 »Five Biggest Healthcare Deals in May 2015
The last week of May slowed to a crawl as far as announced health care transactions, but preliminary totals for deal volume and value indicate that May 2015 wasn’t too shabby. As of May 29, we counted 101 healthcare transactions, with a combined total of $32.4 billion. A year ago, there were 109 M&A announcements, for a total of $27.5 billion. We’ll go into detail in the June issue of Health Care M&A News, so watch for the publication announcement later this week. Read More »Health Care M&A Hits a Wall in April 2015
It’s still a bit early to call the party over, but health care M&A spending in April had a hangover. Our preliminary data show 94 transactions announced, which is 29% lower than March’s deal volume, but about even with April 2014’s total. The dollars, however, stopped flowing abruptly. We’ve recorded only $3.8 billion in spending last month, a drop of 93% compared with the previous month, and -92% compared with the same month the year before. Check the May issue of Health Care M&A News for the sector-by-sector breakouts. Read More »Schedule a demo
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