Europe Sees A Flurry of Springtime Dealmaking In The Pharmaceutical Industry, As Bayer Leads The Pack With A $19.5 Billion Bid for Schering AG March saw a surge of M&A activity in the pharmaceutical sector, particularly in Europe. A total of 17 deals were...
Nationwide Health Properties Is The Surprise Winner After months of speculation, with many rumors about some very high preliminary pricing levels, a deal was finally struck for the Hearthstone Assisted Living portfolio. Most of the major players looked at the...
Possible $2 Billion Breakup and Sale of Extendicare May Help Jumpstart Skilled Nursing M&A Market in 2006 Two paragraphs into its otherwise routine fourth-quarter and year-end earnings report, Extendicare (NYSE: EXE) revealed that it had engaged Lehman Brothers...
The year 2005 will go down in senior care market history if not as the most memorable, then certainly as the most bountiful. Across the board, many records were set in the 2005 seniors housing acquisition market, which includes both assisted and independent living...
Email Editor Knowing when to hold ‘em and knowing when to fold ‘em are useful skills in more games than just poker. The bidding war for Guidant Corporation (NYSE: GDT), raging over the past two months, has finally come to an end with Guidant’s board accepting Boston...
Two Large Acquisitions With its stock price hitting a new high in January, and up 13% so far this year, Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is on an acquisition spree that can only be described as aggressive. With the company’s successful IPO last November and 57%...