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| Sector | Acquiring Party | Transferring Party |
|---|---|---|
| Biopharmaceuticals | Allergan, Inc. | Esprit Pharma Holding Company, Inc. |
| Allergan gains an overactive bladder treatment portfolio and establishes a new genitourinary division. Esprit markets an anticholinergic approved more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Almirall, S.A. | Shire PLC |
| Strengthens Almirall in dermatology, inflammatory diseases, pain and gastrointestinal, and spurs its international expansion. Almirall obtains the more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Amarin Corporation PLC | Ester Neurosciences Ltd. |
| Adds to Amerin's pipeline a unique mRNA platform technology. Deal value -- $15m in cash plus up to $17m in contingent more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Galenica Group | Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
| Complementay product lines and adds a new drug pipeline that synergizies with Galenica's. Also allows Galenica to possibly extend product more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Genzyme Corporation | Bioenvision, Inc. |
| Enhances Genzymes' oncology business by gaining exclusive, worldwide rights to clofarabine (Clolar), which was developed by both companies. Full more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Mylan Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: MYL) | The generic drug business of Merck KGaA |
| Creates a vertically and horizontally integrated generics and specialty pharmaceuticals leader with a diversified revenue base and a global more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Nycomed International Management GmbH | Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| Both Nycomed and Bradley have a dermatology focus and are active in branded and generic areas. Provides Nycomed US with additional branded more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Pioneer Surgical Technology Inc. | Angstrom Medica, Inc. |
| Angstrom is the first company to obtain FDA approval for a nanotechnology device that can remodel over time into human bone. NanOss has potential more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Stryker Corporation | Curis, Inc. |
| Stryker has been working on a protracted PMA application for its own OP-1 product line for spine and trauma. This deal will give Stryker more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation | marketRx, Inc. |
| Expands Cognizant’s Life Sciences industry offerings. marketRx provides web-based solutions for sales management, brand marketing and product more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company | Dynamic Imaging, LLC |
| The acquisition of advanced Web-based Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and integrated RIS/PACS allows GE Healthcare to expand its more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Iron Mountain Incorporated | RMS Services - USA, Inc. |
| Both companies provide file-room and film-library management solutions to hospitals and large healthcare systems and promote electronic medical more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Omnicell, Inc. | Rioux Vision, Inc. |
| With the addition of mobile cart technology, Omnicell can deliver a closed-loop medication management, administration and dispensing system that more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Royal Philips Electronics | Emergin, Inc. |
| Enables Philips to integrate the functionality of Emergin’s software directly into its current and future patient monitoring products. Terms not more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Royal Philips Electronics | VISICU, Inc. |
| Gives Philips a stronger presence in more hospitals. VISICU's technology, installed in some 180 hospitals, allows one caregiver to monitor as more... | ||
| Dental | 3M Co. | Lingualcare Inc. |
| Lingualcare makes an new system called iBraces, which adheres on the tongue side of the teeth. The company will be added to 3M's Unitek division, more... | ||
| Dental | AstraTech | Atlantis Components, Inc. |
| Complements Astra's dental implant business and allows it to offer a broader portfolio of restorative products. Deal value -- $71m. Shareholders more... | ||
| Dental | Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corportion | Precise Dental Family Companies |
| Expands Integra's dental business within its Miltex unit. Deal value -- more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Avista Capital Partners | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |
| Divestiture is part of BMY's plan to focus on Biopharma. Avista acquires a key supplier of medical imaging products for nuclear and ultrasound more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Beckman Coulter Inc. | Dako Denmark A/S |
| Fortifies Beckman's flow cytometry capabilities, used to analyze cells in blood and other fluids for both research applications and diagnosis of more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. | DiaMed Holding AG |
| DiaMed's products complement Bio-Rad's diagnostics business. DiaMed had sales of $200m to hospitals, clinical laboratories, and blood banks more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Celera Group | Berkeley HeartLab, Inc. |
| Provides Celera with CLIA-certified laboratory and infrastructure to commercialize its portfolio of new molecular diagnostic tests that predict risk more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Celera Group | Atria Genetics, Inc. |
| Atria's human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing products are used for identifying potential donors in the matching process for bone marrow more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Genzyme Corp | Diagnostic Chemicals Limited |
| Genzyme acquires more than 50 formulated clinical chemistry reagents, with $21m 07 revenue. Deal value -- $57m more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Hologic, Inc. | Cytyc Corporation |
| Creates one of the largest women's health technology companies. The combined company will have direct operations in over 20 countries with more more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. | HemoSense, Inc. |
| Provides point-of-care testing and fits well with Biosite and QAS, 2 other Inverness acquisitions. Deal value - $165m, on revenue of $28.1m (5.9X) more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. | BBI Holdings Plc |
| BBI's capabilities in developing novel rapid in vitro diagnostic products and high performance reagents and biological materials for use in those more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | Panbio Ltd. |
| Panbio's position in the dengue fever diagnostic market helps Inverness respond to the recent spread of the disease throughout South America and more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | ParadigmHealth, Inc. |
| ParadigmHealth's focus on integrating care and disease management services for acutely ill and complex patients compliment the services of other more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | Redwood Toxicology Laboratory |
| A portfolio company of American Capital Strategies Limited, Redwood is Inverness' largest single distributor of drugs of abuse testing products. more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Natus Medical Incorporated | Excel-Tech Ltd. (XLTEK) |
| Broadens Natus' product offerings in neurology and advances a goal of of achieveing a $250m annual run-rate by the end of 08. Excel-Tech's more... | ||
| Diagnostics | PerkinElmer Inc. | ViaCell Inc. |
| Umbilical cord blood is believed to be effective in treating dozens of diseases including blood cancers and certain genetic diseases. Adds to more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Siemens AG | Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. |
| Combined company will become one of the largest providers of clinical diagnostic products and services in the world. Dade represents one of the last more... | ||
| Diagnostics | SpectraScience, Inc. | Luma Imaging Corporation |
| Gives SpectraScience two FDA approved devices for the early detection of colon and cervical cancers. It hopes to launch other applications, such as more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | NanoDrop Technologies, LLC |
| Strengthens Thermo Fisher's portfolio of UV-Vis spectrophotometry instruments for applications involving small sample volumes. Micro-volume more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Varian, Inc. | Analogix, Inc. |
| Grows Varian's applications based laboratory consumables products and broadens its offerings to the pharmaceutical industry in the area of drug more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Volcano Corporation | CardioSpectra, Inc. |
| Volcano will integrate the acquired OCT high resolution functionality directly into its s5i imaging suite of products. The OCT system allows fast, more... | ||
| Distribution | AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE:ABC) | Bellco Health Corp. |
| Givess AmeriSource a strong position in the Metro New York City area, the largest US independent retail pharmacy market, plus nationwide sales of more... | ||
| Distribution | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | Bio-Stat Healthcare Group |
| Further penetrates Inverness in the UK and funnels Inverness products through Bio-Stat. Deal value -- $33.4m plus earnout up to $14.6m based on more... | ||
| Distribution | McKesson Corporation | Oncology Therapeutics Network |
| OTN is one of the nation's largest distributors of specialty drug products, serving > 3,500 oncologists, 1,500 rheumatologists and other more... | ||
| Distribution | Varian Medical Systems | Pan-Pacific Enterprises, Inc. |
| Significantly enhances the Varian's sales channels for X-ray tubes and flat panel image detectors in China. Deal value -- $2m plus more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Velocity11 |
| Enables Agilent to offer its pharmaceutical and genomics customers automated high throughput packages that will automate processes from the initial more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Avista Capital Partners | Boston Scientific Corp. |
| Part of Boston Scientific's plan to divest non-strategic assets. The fluid management and venous access businesses serve as a key high growth more... | ||
| Medical Devices | BSN Medical | FLA Orthopedics, Inc. |
| Represents an expansion of BSN's product range in the orthopedics softgoods and bracing market. FLA's distribution channels are home medical more... | ||
| Medical Devices | C.R. Bard, Inc. | Edward Lifesciences Corporation |
| A significant strategic addition to Bard's portfolio of non-coronary stent and stent graft products. Enables Edwards to increase investment in more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Coloplast A/S | Caldera Medical, Inc. |
| A key element in the continued expansion of Coloplast's surgical portfolio for men's health. The Levera line is in the final stages of more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Covidien Ltd. | Scandius Biomedical Inc. |
| Adds to Covidien’s sports-related surgery line, including soft tissue repair devices and access products. Acquired assets include instruments more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Derma Sciences Inc. | NutraMax |
| Acquired lines have a #2 market share position in private label adhesive strips, a $86m market with notable growth. The deal is expect to increase more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Dixtal Medical, Inc. | Respironics, Inc. |
| Novametrix was acquired by Respironics in 02, but has since determined it is not a core technology. Dixtal Medical is dedicated to expanding the more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | Ethicon, Inc. |
| Edwards picks up systems for minimally invasive heart valve surgery such as soft-tissue retractors, tubes for use in veins and arteries, catheters, more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Inc | Bledsoe Brace |
| This majority equity acquisition to strengthen and grow Bledsoe which had been in Chapter 11 over patent infringement litigation. A principal in the more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Exactech, Inc. | Altiva Corporation |
| Exactech invested in Altiva in 03 while Altiva was in its formative stage. Since then, Altiva has combined acquisitions of intellectual property with more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Foot Levelers | FootMaxx Holdings Inc. |
| Combines FootMaxx’s foot diagnostic systems with Foot Levelers’ coverage of the chiropractic market, where FL is considered the leading more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA | Renal Solutions, Inc. |
| As the innovator in the sorbent technology field, RSI holds key patents and other IP for purifying tap water to dialysate quality and allowing more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Getinge AB | Boston Scientific Corp. |
| Getinge seeks to build a major global presence in cardio-vascular surgery and intensive care. BSX acquired the cardiac surgery unit as part of its more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Greatbatch, Inc. | Precimed, Inc. |
| Establishes Greatbatch as a leading supplier of orthorpedic OEM component products (implantables) and diversifies its market focus, extending to more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Greatbatch, Inc. (NYSE: GB) | Quan Emerteq LLC |
| Adds critical mass to Greatbatch's recently acquired Enpath business in the growing vascular market and expands its presence into the more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Hansen Medical | AorTx, Inc |
| Leverages Hanson's Sensei™ Robotic Catheter system, which is currently marketed for electrophysiology procedures, into the rapidly more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Hoya Corporation | Pentax Corporation |
| Makes Hoya and Pentax more competitive in the digital imaging field against rivals Olympus and Konica Minolta. This deal manifests increasingly tough more... | ||
| Medical Devices | I-Flow Corp. | AcryMed Inc. |
| AcryMed has patented technology in the woundcare area, developed the proprietary nanoparticle treatment process for the silver coating on more... | ||
| Medical Devices | InaVein LLC | Smith & Nephew Endoscopy |
| Includes systems for minimally invasive removal of varicose veins. This is a non-core asset of S&N. Terms not dislcosed. Sales less than more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. | IsoTis Inc. |
| Enhances Integra's orthobiologics portfolio, broadens its international presence in the regenerative medicine market and increases its sales more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Medtronic, Inc. | Biophan Technologies, Inc. |
| Medtronic acquires patents to make medical devices, like pacemakers, safe for use with an MRI. Deal value -- more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Medtronic, Inc. | Kyphon Inc. |
| Accelerates the growth of Medtronic's spinal business by offering minimally invasive spinal treatments that are simpler and less invasive than more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Medtronic, Inc. | Shandong Weigao Group Medical Polymer Company Limited |
| A joint venture to market in China products in the spine and orthopedics sector, plus Medtronic to buy a 15% equity interest in Weigao. Medtronic more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | Micrus Endovascular Corporation |
| Adds to Merit's cardiac catheter line, while Micrus seeks to focus on the treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke. Deal value -- more... | ||
| Medical Devices | NeuroMetrix, Inc. | EyeTel Imaging, Inc. |
| NeuroMetrix originally obtained an exclusive license to commercialize EyeTel’s DigiScope® throughout the physician office market in 06. more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Ohio Medical Corporation | Amvex Corporation |
| Unites Amvex digital technology with Ohio Medical’s suctioning technology to create more advanced products. Terms not disclosed, but MVC more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Olympus Corp. | Gyrus Group Plc |
| Helps solidify Olympus' capabilities in minimally invasive products. In 06, Olympus launched a strategic push to increase growth and earnings more... | ||
| Medical Devices | ReAble Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Encore Medical) | DJO Incorporated |
| Another billion dollar private equity deal. DJO and ReAble provide complementary products in orthopedic rehabilitation and pain management, and there more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Respironics Inc | Apollo Light Systems Inc. |
| Expands Respironics into the broader sleep markets (beyond obstructive sleep apnea). Apollo addresses insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders and other more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Royal Philips Electronics | Respironics, Inc. |
| Respironics expected to significantly drive Phililps Health Care's growth in the hospital and home monitoring markets. Millions of people suffer more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Symmetry Medical, Inc. | DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. |
| Fortifies Symmetry's production capacity and capabilities. Deal is coupled with a supply agreement under which DePuy will make minimum purchases more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Synthes Inc. | N Spine |
| N Spine's product dynamic stabilization rods allows minimal access techniques, helps avoid interference with the facet joints, and enables close more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Warburg Pincus | Bausch & Lomb |
| Another private equity billion dollar deal -- $3.67b. As a private company, B&L will have greater flexibility to focus on long-term more... | ||
| Medical Services | Apria Healthcare Group Inc. | Coram Inc. |
| Enables Apria to enter the rapidly-growing specialty pharmaceutical market, while expanding existing managed care relationships associated with its more... | ||
| Medical Services | Carlyle Group | Manor Care Inc. |
| Long-term care considered a safe and growing area, given the aging population, longer life spans and stabilized reimbursement rates. Manor Care more... | ||
| Medical Services | Haemonetics Corporation | Haemoscope Corporation |
| Haemoscope's systems can predict a patient's risk of bleeding and thrombotic complications and enable personalized therapy. With this more... | ||
| Medical Services | HAPC, Inc. | I-Flow Corporation |
| InfuSystem provides external ambulatory infusion pump services to doctors and their patients allowing for the gradual delivery of a drug over a more... | ||
| Medical Services | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | ALERE Medical Incorporated |
| Here, Inverness enters the disease management market. Alere's expertise in home chronic heart failure management complements Inverness' more... | ||
| Medical Services | I-trax, Inc. | ProFitness Health Solutions |
| Enhances I-trax's current offerings at on-site health centers through its CHD Meridian Healthcare, LLC subsidiary. Deal value -- more... | ||
| Medical Services | Quintiles Transnational Corp. | Bio-Trials |
| Grows Qunintiles in the increasingly important Central American region, as international pharmaceutical customers are conducting more trials there. more... | ||
| Medical Services | Royal Philips Electronics NV | Raytel Cardiac Services |
| Raytel wiill become part of Philips' Home Healthcare Solutions business group. Raytel's cardiac technicians work at monitoring centers, where more... | ||
| Medical Services | SpineOvations | Discogen |
| Discogen’s technology provides a method for intradiscal drug delivery which could enhance treatment for those suffering from early stage more... | ||
| Medical Services | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | Priority Solutions International |
| Strengthens Thermo's outsourced clinical trials management business, adding significant logistics expertise and infrastructure to its existing more... | ||
| Medical Services | Vestar Capital Partners | Radiation Therapy Services Inc. |
| Cancer care treatment centers seen as a growth area and a compelling platform. Deal value -- $1.b, on sales of $367.4m (3.0x) and EBITDA of $90.2m more... | ||
| OTC/Consumer | First Quality Enterprises, Inc. | Covidien Ltd. |
| Creates a more comprehensive absorbent hygiene business, solidifying First Quality's position in its core areas. Provide retail customers with a more... | ||
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