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| Sector | Acquiring Party | Transferring Party |
|---|---|---|
| Biopharmaceuticals | Amgen | Alantos Pharmaceuticals |
| Adds phase 2A clinical stage DPP-IV inhibitors to Amgen's portfolio of therapeutics to treat metabolic diseases, specifically osteoarthritis. more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Amgen | Ilypsa, Inc. |
| Provides Amgen with a late-stage selective phosphate binder for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients on more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | AstraZeneca | Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| AstraZeneca builds its pipeline in pediatric asthma, the most common chronic childhood illness affecting almost 10% of U.S. children. The estimated more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation | Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Corporation |
| Complements Biotest's European plasma protein business and gives it an immediate share in the growing U.S. plasma protein market, while expanding more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | Adnexus™ Therapeutics |
| Advances Bristol-Myers' biologics strategy across multiple therapeutic areas and includes a Phase I oncology biologic. Adnectins are an emerging, more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Entelos, Inc. | Iconix Biosciences, Inc. |
| Iconix's predictive toxicology services, teamed with Entelos's predictive safety and efficacy expertise, will assist in screening, more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Evotec AG | Renovis, Inc. |
| Creates a pharmaceutical company with 3 clinical candidates and a late stage preclinical pipeline focused on neurological and inflammatory diseases. more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Genstar Capital LLC | PRA International |
| Allows Genstar to invest in PRA's strategic initiatives, after the company has been seeking to turn around its struggling mid-stage clinical more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Meda AB | MedPointe Inc. |
| Establishes Meda as a world-class specialty pharma company with full marketing coverage both in the US and Europe and with revenues approaching 1.4b. more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Merck & Co., Inc. | NovaCardia, Inc. |
| NovaCardia's lead product candidate, being studied in Phase 3 clinical trials, is believed to protect kidneys from effects of diuretics often more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Novator | Actavis |
| Novator will be taking a more leveraged and aggressive approach to growing the business. Deal value -- $3.1b, on sales of $1.83b ($1.7x) and EBITDA more... | ||
| Biopharmaceuticals | Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc. | JDS Pharmaceuticals, LLC |
| In this transformational, diversification acquisition, Noven acquires a leveragable marketing/sales infrastructure, with two high-margin products and more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Firstsource Solutions Limited | MedAssist Holding, Inc. |
| Enables Firstsource, which already services payors in the U.S., to address the hospital BPO (business processing outsourcing services) segment. more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | McKesson Corporation | Awarix, Inc. |
| McKesson furthers its hospital IT solutions with a "patient visibility" workflow system that tracks patient treatment and helps to more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Philips Electronics NV | XIMIS Inc. |
| Philips obtains a Web-based radiology information management system used by radiology departments to store patient data and imagery, as well as more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Picis, Inc. | LYNX Medical Systems Inc. |
| Combined companies create an integrated system for clinical information with coding and reimbursement revenue management. Strengthens Picis's more... | ||
| Data Management/ Healthcare IT | Vista Equity Partners | Misys Healthcare Systems, LLC |
| Enables MiSys to focus on its ambulatory space business while Vista gains another strong presence in the acute care market. The transferred business more... | ||
| Dental | Dentsply International Inc. (XRAY) | Sultan Healthcare, Inc. |
| Provides Dentsply with new consumable product lines, which can be sold over its large international sales and distribution network. Expected to add more... | ||
| Diagnostics | AMETEK, Inc. | CAMECA SAS |
| Expands Ametek's technical capabilities in differentiated, high-end analytical instrumentation. Deal value - $112m on sales of $82.0m (1.4x). more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Eppendorf Group | New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. |
| Broadens Eppendorf's line and deepens its market share. NBS has a sales force and will benefit from Eppendorf's global distribution network more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. | Cholestech Corporation |
| Provides Inverness with the ability to manage cardiac conditions, plus a large installed base of Cholestech systems in physicians' offices. Cross more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) | Matritech, Inc. |
| Inverness expects opportunities to develop between Matritech and its existing point-of-care organization as well as with those of other recently more... | ||
| Diagnostics | QIAGEN | eGene, Inc. |
| The combination of patented multiplex fluorescence detection designs with solid-state light sources and micro-optical collectors said to create an more... | ||
| Diagnostics | QIAGEN N.V. | Digene Corp. |
| Creates a global leader in molecular diagnostics, outside blood screening and viral load monitoring. Combines QIAGEN's leading technology more... | ||
| Diagnostics | SurModics, Inc. | BioFX Laboratories, Inc. |
| SurModics acquires so-called substrates, a critical component of diagnostic test kits used to detect and signal that a certain reaction has taken more... | ||
| Diagnostics | The Gores Group | The Diagnostic Division of HealthSouth Corporation |
| The Diagnostic Division comprises a network of 54 freestanding diagnostic imaging centers in 19 states and D.C., offering MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound, more... | ||
| Diagnostics | The Scott Fetzer Company | Rozinn Electronics, Inc. |
| Combines with ScottCare's cardiopulmonary rehabilitation telemetry and ECP therapy products. ScottCare will accelerate worldwide development, more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | Davis Inotek Instruments, LLC |
| Fits with Thermo Fisher's Cole-Parmer customer channel, a specialty catalog brand that provides technical instruments, equipment and supplies to more... | ||
| Diagnostics | Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. | Spring BioScience Corporation |
| Ventana gains key antibody and reagent development capabilities and streamlines its supply chain by reducing its reliance on external suppliers for more... | ||
| Distribution | Dynatronics Corporation | Six independent distributors |
| Vertical integration to gain regional sales resources. Call points are physical therapy, sports medicine, chiropractic, podiatry, plastic surgery, more... | ||
| Distribution | Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC) | W & J Dunlop Ltd |
| Strengthens Schein's European animal health business, which will now extend to Austria, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K., as more... | ||
| Medical Devices | 3M Company | Neoplast Co. Ltd. |
| Expands 3M's global manufacturing capabilities and allows it to better address this emerging market, with complementary products. Terms not more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Anodyne Medical Device, Inc. | PrimaTech Medical Systems |
| Strengthens Anodyne in long-term care and home care markets and solidifies an exclusive partnership with a key Taiwan-based supplier. more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Aspen Surgical Products, Inc. | Colby Manufacturing Corp. |
| An add-on acquisition for Aspen, a portfolio company of RoundTable Healthcare Partners. Colby adds fluid waste control products to Aspen's OR more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Cantel Medical Corp. | Verimetrix, LLC |
| Expands Cantel's endoscope reprocessing product line. Verimetrix's system enables customers not only to reduce scope repair costs and improve more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Ecolab Inc. | Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. |
| Expands Ecolab’s growing presence in healthcare cleaning and infection prevention. Combines with its hand hygiene, medical instrument, and more... | ||
| Medical Devices | ev3 Inc. | FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. |
| Creates a global leadership position in the endovascular device market and offers significant revenue synergies and cost savings. The combined more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Flextronics International Ltd. | Avail Medical Products, Inc. |
| Together with its pending $3.6b Solectron acquisition, buying Avail enhances Flextroinics' medical design, manufacturing and logistics more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc. | SureFit LLC |
| Fits with Hanger's SPS distribution arm, which can leverage sales and lower its own cost of goods for certain therapeutic footwear already being more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Hologic, Inc. | The breast cushion business of BioLucent, Inc. |
| BioLucent's patented MammoPad is designed to reduce the discomfort that inhibits many women from getting regular mammography screenings. The deal more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Medos Medizintechnik AG | CardioTech International, Inc. |
| Provides Medos with a platform to enter the U.S. market with cardiopulmonary surgery disposables (i.e., extracorporeal tubing) and to introduce its more... | ||
| Medical Devices | NeuroTherm, Inc. | Cotop International |
| Strengthens NeuroTherm in the radiofrequency pain management field, as an add-on acquisition. Neurotherm is the leading provider of RF generators more... | ||
| Medical Devices | ReAble Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Encore Medical) | IOMED, Inc. |
| This is an add-on acquisition by Blackstone, which acquired ReAble in '06. IOMED's pain management drug delivery devices complement offerings more... | ||
| Medical Devices | SonoSite, Inc. | LumenVu, Inc. |
| Strengthens SonoSite’s position in the vascular access market as well as adding a recurring disposables revenue stream. LumenVu offers more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Specialty Blades, Inc. | Popper and Sons, Inc. |
| Complements Specialty Blade's medical device contract and OEM manufacturing strategy, creating a leading cutting and piercing component more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Symmetry Medical Inc. | Specialty Surgical Instruments and Ultra Containers of America |
| Extends Symmetry's product reach into surgical specialties where it has limited presence, including cardiovascular, ENT and ophthalmology. With more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Teleflex Incorporated | Arrow International, Inc. |
| A huge deal for Teleflex, which redefines it as a leading global supplier of disposable medical products used in critical care, specialty medical, more... | ||
| Medical Devices | The Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG | Biomet, Inc. |
| Orthopedics regarded as a substantial growth area due to the aging population and other factors and Biomet represents a major platform to propel more... | ||
| Medical Devices | TriMas Corporation | DEW Technologies, Inc. |
| TriMas diversifies and gains access to growing orthopedic market. Terms not more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Vital Signs, Inc. | Southern Sleep Technologies, LLC and Southern Home Respiratory Care LLC |
| Fortifies Vital Signs' Sleep Segment business unit and expands its geographic coverage in the Atlanta market. Adds to Vital Signs' strategy more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Vital Signs, Inc. | Enginivity LLC |
| Expands Vital Signs' patient temperature management line and opens up a $40-45 million domestic market, addressable by its anesthesia-related more... | ||
| Medical Devices | Zimmer Holdings, Inc. | ORTHOsoft Inc. |
| ORTHOsoft's computer-aided surgical navigation system supports Zimmer's desire to strengthen its vertical integration with computer assisted more... | ||
| Medical Services | Amedisys, Inc. | the home health and hospice assets of IntegriCare, Inc. |
| Affords Amedisys entry into 8 new states and expands its hospice business, a long-term growth area. Terms not disclosed. Acquired business generated more... | ||
| Medical Services | AmerisourceBergen Corporation | Kindred Healthcare, Inc. |
| AmerisourceBergen and Kindred are combining their respective institutional pharmacy businesses as PharMerica Corp., a new, independent, publicly more... | ||
| Medical Services | Apollo Health Street | Zavata Inc. |
| The combined organization will be the largest healthcare-focused BPO organization in the country with a significant IT business, with more than 100 more... | ||
| Medical Services | Concentra Health Services, Inc. | Business Health Services, Inc. |
| Expands Concentra's geographic footprint to 23 occupational health centers in Michigan. Terms not more... | ||
| Medical Services | Formation Capital, LLC and JER Partners | Genesis HealthCare Corporation |
| Long-term care facilities are attractive private equity acquisition targets, due to the aging population, longer life spans, and predictable patient more... | ||
| Medical Services | Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group | Nursefinders, Inc. |
| Expands the healthcare staffing holdings of Goldman Sachs by joining Nursefinders with its existing portfolio company and travel nurse staffing more... | ||
| Medical Services | Humana Inc. | KMG America Corporation |
| With KMG's marketing and product distribution focus on the consumer, the deal enhances Humana's ability to serve the growing demand for more... | ||
| Medical Services | Medco Health Solutions, Inc. | PolyMedica Corporation |
| Medco manages more than $6.5b in drug spending related to its 2.8m patients under diabetes treatment. The deal brings 1 million members under care more... | ||
| Medical Services | Sonic Healthcare Ltd. | Sunrise Medical Laboratories Inc. |
| Represents an important strategic step for Sonic Healthcare in its expanding U.S. laboratory operations. Sunrise operates in the New York more... | ||
| Medical Services | Walgreen Company | Option Care, Inc. |
| Strengthens Walgreen's position as a full-service specialty pharmacy provider, especially in areas such as hemophilia, immune deficiency and more... | ||
| Medical Services | WellPoint, Inc. | American Imaging Management |
| Diagnostic imaging is one of the fastest growing health care expenditures in the U.S. and AIM has a record of dramatically reducing these costs by more... | ||
| OTC/Consumer | Bayer HealthCare's Consumer Care Division | The Citracel® line of OTC calcium supplements of Mission Pharmacal Company |
| Increases Bayer's OTC market presence in the U.S. and opens up international sales opportunities for extending the brand in other parts of the more... | ||
| OTC/Consumer | The Perrigo Company | Qualis, Inc. |
| Perrigo acquires 5 store brand over-the-counter product formulations making it the category leader for lice products. Deal value -- more... | ||
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