May’s Figure Reaches Highest Level For 2009 Despite rumors of its impending demise, the health care services segment posted the highest level of M&A activity for the year, as measured in deal volume, during May. After bottoming out at 18 deals in March, volume...
Recent Dealmaking Emphasizes The Middle Market The hospital M&A market in 2008 represented a departure from the markets in 2006 and 2007 in that it lacked the very large, multi-hospital transactions which tended to skew results of those earlier years. In 2006,...
$4.7 Billion Deal Makes ESRX Number Two PBM Somewhat unusually, given recent trends in the health care M&A market, April’s largest deal occurred in one of the services sectors. More predictable, however, is that the assets involved in the deal would be crucially...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stephen M. Monroe, Partner Sanford B. Steever, Editor 800-248-1668 203-846-6800 Fax: 203-846-8300 pressreleases@levinassociates.com NORWALK, CT – April 15, 2009 – According to a new Report from Irving Levin Associates, a total of 199 mergers and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stephen M. Monroe, Partner Gretchen S. Swanson, Associate Editor 800-248-1668 203-846-6800 Fax: 203-846-8300 pressreleases@levinassociates.com Norwalk, CT – April 16, 2009—During the quarter ended March 31, 2009, the health care venture...
Nearly 200 Deals Posted Worth A Record $127.4 Billion Over the past few quarters, we have been living out the ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” But it wasn’t until the most recent quarter that we saw how deeply the credit crunch...