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March 19, 2012 Issue:
 

Recent Health Care M&A Deals 

Catholic Hospital M&A —
Are Acquisitions Restricting Women’s Health Care?

Spotlight on: Medical Devices

Conference Calendar

 
 

Recent Health Care M&A Deals

Biotechnology

Acquirer

Target

Price

Shire plc

FerroKin BioSciences, Inc.

$325.0 million

Medical Devices

Acquirer

Target

Price

Abcam plc

Epitomics

$155.0 million

Asahi Kasei Medical Co. Ltd.

Zoll Medical Corporation

$2.2 billion

Boston Scientific Corp.

Cameron Health, Inc.

$1.25 billion

Other

Acquirer

Target

Price

Arriva Medical

AmMed Direct

$23.0 million

 
 
 
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Catholic Hospital M&A —
Are Acquisitions Restricting Women’s Health Care?
Political rhetoric heated up during February when the GOP claimed that the Obama administration was waging war on religious freedom by requiring certain institutions to pay for contraception for their employees. The countercharge from the Left retorted that the GOP was waging war on women’s control over their reproductive health. This brouhaha set the stage for Catholic hospitals to become ensnared in a larger debate they wanted no part of……Read more 

 
 
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Spotlight on: Medical Devices
Although the Medical Device sector saw robust deal volume in February, the (revealed) prices were rather modest.  In the largest deal with a disclosed price, Linden, LLC, a Chicago-based private equity shop, has offered to acquire SeraCare Life Sciences (NASDAQ: SRLS), for $4.00 per share, or $80.4 million. Headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, SRLS provides products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human and animal diagnostics and therapeutics……Read more  
 
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