150 Deals Announced Worth $93.7 Billion In a year otherwise fraught with financial volatility, the Biotechnology industry outperformed many other sectors in the economy. Take stock prices, for example. Biotech heavy hitters Genentech (NYSE: DNA) and Amgen (NASDAQ:...
Third-Largest Year Ever In The Health Care Industry Based on figures revealed to date, the health care industry posted a total of 973 mergers and acquisitions in 2008. This is the third-largest amount in the five-year period from 2004 through 2008 (see page 20 of...
24 Buyers Spent Over $1.0 Billion Apiece On M&A Email this article to a friend Email Editor We have observed in the past that buyers and sellers in the merger and acquisition market tend to use the period from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day to wrap up...
King Bids $1.6 Billion To Enhance Its Pain Franchise Email this article to a friend Email Editor Despite turmoil in the credit markets, the big deal has not gone the way of the dinosaur. Just before Thanksgiving, King Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: KG) finally nailed down...
What M&A Might Look Like Under The New Administration Email this article to a friend Email Editor We take it as a truism that governmental changes to the health care system, real or threatened, cause unease in the health care industry, leading participants to...
New CEO Makes His Mark By Making Deals Email this article to a friend Email Editor The world’s second-largest drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK), acquired a new CEO this year, Andrew Witty. Since coming on board in the second quarter, Mr. Witty’s Glaxo has...