Healthcare Dollar Volume Exploded in January

April 8, 2019 Lisa Phillips Acquisitions, Archives, Monthly results Bristol-Myers Squibb, Brookfield Business Partners LP, Celgene Corp., Healthscope Ltd., Medical Properties Trust, NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT Leave a comment

Dollar volume for healthcare deals announced in January was ridiculous, topping $90 billion. We don’t see figures like that in most quarters. The outsized total results from a single deal, of course. Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (NYSE: BMY) $74 billion acquisition of Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ: CELG) made up 81% of the month’s total. Suffice it to say […]

Healthscope Changes Hands Again

February 1, 2019 Lisa Phillips Acquisitions, Hospitals, REIT Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Brookfield Business Partners LP, Healthscope Ltd., Medical Properties Trust, NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT, The Carlyle Group, TPG Capital Leave a comment

Healthscope Ltd. (ASX: HSO), Australia’s second largest private hospital chain, is being sold once again, this time for $4.14 billion, or 1.8x revenue. The Melbourne, Victoria-based company owns 43 hospitals across all states in Australia and is the largest pathology services provider in New Zealand, with 24 laboratories. Three buyers are involved, two of them real […]