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The 2009 outlook for M&A activity is bleak for most sectors, but it's not universal. Jeff Bistrong (pictured), a managing director with the middle-market investment bank Harris Williams & Co., predicts relatively robust dealflow in energy, healthcare and technology. Here's what he had to say about each sector:Energy: "The downward...
Posted on November 18, 2008 11:42 AM
The healthcare information technology space is hot, and we are continuing to follow the consolidation. In the latest deal, health insurer WellPoint, Inc. is acquiring Resolution Health Inc., a personal healthcare guidance company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The acquisition was two years in the making. WellPoint had hired...
Posted on April 17, 2008 2:26 PM
In our latest magazine, this Corporate Dealmaker sector watch highlighted the paperwork logjam in the U.S. healthcare system, which is bringing a wave of consolidation in the world of healthcare information technology and also within...
Posted on April 9, 2008 11:02 AM
Corporate dealmakers Christine Arakelian of Omnicare, June X. Nguyen of Eisai, Inc. and Charles Simmons of Bristol Myers Squibb talk at The Deal's Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium about how the credit crunch is sometimes working to the advantage of strategic buyers. "I would say that there's been an uptick in acquisition opportunities by virtue of the credit crisis," said Arakel. "It's a...
Posted on April 3, 2008 4:29 PM
The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn sits down with Ken Klee, editor of Corporate Dealmaker, at The Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium to discuss how the turmoil in the financial markets is affecting deals within the healthcare market. In this clip, Klee talks about the narrowing of the IPO window around biotechs, M&A...
Posted on March 31, 2008 2:38 PM
How three very different companies are riding the consolidation wave in the electronic health records business.
Posted on March 12, 2008 2:18 PM
On March 19, The Deal will be hosting a Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium, monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. Fittingly, Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. just issued their quarterly newsletter, BGL...
Posted on March 10, 2008 4:14 PM
Last year was the second biggest ever for healthcare M&A, with deals worth more than $226 billion, a 38% increase over the $164.3 billion in 2004 (but a 16% decrease from the $268.4 billion in 2006). Stephen Monroe, managing editor at Irving Levin Associates Inc., which publishes The Health...
Posted on January 11, 2008 2:15 PM
Every major pharmaceutical company is doing business in China either through joint ventures or wholly owned subsidiaries... also, we take a quick look at corporate venture capital.
Posted on October 15, 2006 5:27 PM
Fly, be free (from Corporate Dealmaker)
Will healthcare soar? Will electronics prove nimbler? Will investors applaud? Or will Ed Breen's plan to spin Tyco into three distinct business do more harm than good?
Posted on June 15, 2006 6:51 PM
UnitedHealth bought PacifiCare for scale in its core insurance business. Should it also retain the target's pharmacy benefit management business?
Posted on April 15, 2006 4:20 PM
If approved by the High Court in London and Alliance stockholders, Alliance Boots will be Europe's largest retail pharmacy owner.
Posted on April 15, 2006 3:44 PM
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