Deal And Dollar Volume Jump In Second Half Of Year Back in May we observed that one of the first victims of health care reform was the Managed Care sector, at least as measured by merger and acquisition activity. At that point, the industry was eking out just one...
Makes Largest Privatization Of A CRO Ever Recorded Financial buyers usually account for about 5 percent of the deal volume in the health care M&A market. But when a REIT or a private equity group announces a deal, it is almost always hot news because it is...
37 Billion-Dollar Buyers Spend $168.0 Billion Against the constant din of doom and gloom headlines emanating from the general media this year, the 2011 health care merger and acquisition market illustrated the proverb, “When the going gets tough, the tough get...
Most Active Sector In Health Care M&A For 2011 No single sector of the health care industry has been as active in the M&A market this year as Medical Devices. It leads the other sectors in terms of both deal and dollar volume. For the first nine months of...
After a robust market in physician medical groups in the first half of 2012, with nearly 50 announced acquisitions, the deal activity slowed down, at least in July. But that didn’t stop MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD), which announced two transactions at the end of the...
Two Deals Announced, But Interest Remains High Vacations may account for the relative dearth of mergers and acquisitions in the Hospital market. Even dealmakers have to take time to recharge their batteries before plunging back into the frenzy of activity that has...