During the first quarter of 2001, a total of 201 mergers and acquisitions were announced in 13 sectors of the health care industry. As the chart below illustrates, this represents a 4% decline from the 210 deals announced in the prior quarter and a 3% decrease from...
The 2001 numbers for the senior care facilities acquisition market are in. While we will preview some of them here, the majority of data and analysis appear in the seventh edition of Irving Levin’s The Senior Care Acquisition Report. After declining for two years in a...
Our choice for deal of the month involves the acquisition of the country’s largest privately-held, independent pharmacy benefits manager, or PBM. In early February, as a kind of tenth anniversary present to itself, Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) announced a definitive...
With a total of 184 deals announced during the fourth quarter of 2001, M&A activity rose a slight 1% against the previous quarter’s 182 transactions. This figure, however, represents a 24% drop against the 241 deals in the fourth quarter of 2000. For only the...
In the fourth quarter of 2000, the health care merger and acquisition market was dominated by the four technology and product-oriented sectors that we began covering last fall. With a combined total of 143 deals, the e-Health, Medical Device, Biotechnology and...