Email Editor The month of August saw a total of 68 mergers and acquisitions announced in 13 sectors of the health care industry. The month’s deal volume dropped ever so slightly from July’s tally of 69 deals. The nine sectors of the health care services segment...
Email Editor Over the past year, we have covered deals in which Indian pharmaceutical companies stretched their wings and made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. With the dismantling of the “Permit Raj”—a hornet’s nest of bureaucracy and...
July Sees 69 Deals Worth A Combined $35.5 Billion Email Editor The month of July saw a total of 69 mergers and acquisitions announced in 13 sectors of the health care industry, down 17% from the 81 deals announced in June. The nine sectors of the services segment...
HCA Agrees To Be Taken Private For $33 Billion Email Editor For the second time in its history, hospital operator HCA, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) has agreed to be taken private. This time a group of private equity firms, along with HCA management and the founding Frist family,...
After some weeks of speculation in the press, Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) finally announced it would buy The DuPont Pharmaceutical Company, a subsidiary of E. I. Du Pont De Nemours (NYSE: DD), for $7.8 billion in cash. This deal advances both companies’ plans to...
The health care industry saw a total of 263 mergers and acquisitions announced during the second quarter of 2006, up 11% from the 236 transactions announced in the prior quarter, Q1:06 and up 15% from the 228 deals announced in the year-ago quarter, Q2:05. The four...