Health Care Deal News: Spotlight on Medical Devices

Being profitable doesn’t make a division all that valuable, it appears. In the wake of its $3.72 billion acquisition of Gen-Probe (NASDAQ: GPRO) last year, Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLX) began cleaning house in order to pay its debts. One result: Immucor, Inc. agreed to...

The Health Care M&A Monthly: Devices Dominate Dealmaking

Seventeen Transactions Announced Worth $1.4 Billion The health care merger and acquisition market for January 2010 generated a total of 70 deals with a combined value of $5.4 billion. As we have come to expect, the four sectors of the health care technology segment...

The SeniorCare Investor: Construction Financing 101

  Commercial Banks, HUD and REITs Still In The Market Everyone has been complaining about the lack of debt financing for acquisitions, or when available, that the terms are too stringent or the equity required is too high.  Well, welcome to the new reality, and unless...