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Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database - 2Q09



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Sector Acquiring Party Transferring Party
Biopharmaceuticals BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cell Genesys
Allows BioSante to secure additional funding required for the continued Phase III development of LibiGel for the treatment of hypoactive sexual more...

Biopharmaceuticals Biovail Corporation Cambridge Laboratories Ltd.
Another step in transforming Biovail to a leading specialty CNS company. The subject line shows strong commercial success in the U.S. in treating more...

Biopharmaceuticals Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. CuraGen Corporation
Adds 11 oncology-focused antibodies, including CR011, to expand Celldex’s immunotherapy platform and enhance its antibody-based technology more...

Biopharmaceuticals GlaxoSmithKline PLC Stiefel Laboratories Inc.
Stiefel makes acne treatments and other skin creams, lotions, washes and vitamins. The world's No. 2 drug maker by revenue, Glaxo seeks to more...

Biopharmaceuticals Johnson & Johnson Cougar Biotechnology, Inc.
Cougar has compounds in development for the treatment of prostate and breast cancer and multiple myeloma. There are 2 Phase III trials for a more...

Biopharmaceuticals Novartis AG Ebewe Pharma
Adds to Novartis' generic pharmaceuticals division Sandoz, which will form a new global cancer center around this business. Branded injectable more...

Biopharmaceuticals PPD, Inc. Magen BioSciences, Inc.
Expands PPD into dermatology, initially in the indications of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and acne. Deal value -- $14.5m, on an expected 09 loss of more...

Biopharmaceuticals Sanofi-Aventis SA BiPar Sciences, Inc.
BiPar is the leading company in the emerging field of DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) repair using PARP (Poly ADP-Ribose Polymerase) inhibitors. By more...

Biopharmaceuticals Watson Pharmaceuticals The Arrow Group
Expands Watson's global footprint across many developed and emrging markets. Watson gains the rights to generic Lipitor, more than 100 molecules more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Haemonetics Corporation Altivation Software
Complements Haemonetics' platforms and adds resources for management of mobile blood drives, a critical part of blood collection. Terms not more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Haemonetics Corporation Neoteric Technology Ltd
Neoteric markets a suite of products to track, allocate, and dispense hospital blood units, while controlling inventory and recording the disposition more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT McKesson Corporation LMS Medical Systems
LMS' OB surveillance and archival solution has been part of McKesson's Horizon system, which integrates a fetal strip with the mother’s more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT MEDecision, Inc. HxTechnologies, Inc.
Bolsters MEDecision’s ability to deliver real-time, actionable information for the formulation of meaningful electronic health records (EHRs), more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Merge Healthcare etrials Worldwide, Inc.
This $18.3m cash-and-stock bid betters at $14.5m deal from Bio-Imaging Technologies. Here, Merge diversifies its product line to include clinical more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Microsoft Corporation Merck & Co. Inc.
Allows Microsoft to incorporate genetic, genomic, metabolomic and proteomics data management software into its Amalga Life Sciences platform to more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Royal Philips Electronics Traxtal Inc.
Strengthens Philips' image guidance business by combining Traxtal’s advanced computer assisted soft tissue navigation technology with more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT WebMD Health Corp. HLTH Corporation
HLTH currently owns 80% of WebMD's equity. The merger eliminates WebMD's existing dual-class stock structure and adds liquidity for the more...

Diagnostics Beckman Coulter, Inc. Clinical Data, Inc.
Complements Beckman Coulter’s Agencourt Biosciences’ business, which delivers genomic services and nucleic acid purification products, and more...

Diagnostics Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings Monogram Biosciences, Inc.
Strengthens LabCorp’s position in personalized medicine. Mongram has leading infectious disease and HIV tests, companion diagnostics (to more...

Diagnostics PerkinElmer, Inc. Analytica of Branford, Inc.
Part of PerkinElmer's strategic commitment to continue to grow its human and environmental health portfolio. Mass spectrometry provides a more...

Diagnostics Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Biolab
Biolab is the premier commercial channel in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific with a broad line to support Thermo Fisher’s continued more...

Medical Devices Aircraft Medical Morpheus Medical
Morpheus' lead product is designed to measure the level of consciousness during general anaesthesia, helping to avoid the risk of patients more...

Medical Devices Altor Equity Technitrol Inc.
The transferred business includes armature receivers, high-end microphones and electromechanical devices for the hearing aid, high-end audio headset more...

Medical Devices Avalign Technologies, Inc. NGInstruments, Inc.
Adds new product lines for the reconstruction, trauma, and spine markets. NGInstruments is the fourth Avalign acquisition, following Nemcomed, more...

Medical Devices Baxter International Inc. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Hemofiltration -- or Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) -- mimics the function of the kidneys 24 hours a day for patients with more...

Medical Devices Coviden Ltd. VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc.
Venous reflux disease is an underlying cause of varicose veins that can result in leg pain, swelling, fatigue and skin ulcers. VNUS’s closure more...

Medical Devices ev3 Inc. Chestnut Medical Technologies, Inc.
Broadens ev3's neurovascular product portfolio by adding Chestnut's pipeline embolization device for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms and more...

Medical Devices HealthTronics Inc. Endocare Inc.
Expands Healthtronics' prostrate business. HealthTronics currently uses Endocare consumables in cryosurgery procedures. This deal ends more...

Medical Devices Kinetic Concepts, Inc. Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.
Fortifies KCI's NPWT franchise. Terms not more...

Medical Devices Medtronic, Inc. PreciSense A/S
Expands Medtronic’s continuous glucose monitoring pipeline and becomes a part of a new CGM platform to aid development of a more...

Medical Devices Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Hatch Medical, L.L.C.
The device improves the ability of foreign body retrievals especially during complex endovascular procedures in the peripheral vascular system and more...

Medical Devices Microline PENTAX Starion Instruments Corp.
Complements Microlines' reposable minimally invasive products and enables it to address cardiology and ENT markets. Starion has patented tissue more...

Medical Devices Misonix Incorporated ProRhythm, Inc.
The patents cover high intensity focused ultrasound. Terms not more...

Medical Devices NeuroTherm Micron Catheter
An add-on acquisition for the Cortec Group, enabling NeuroTherm to offer its interventional pain specialist customer base a means to remove scar more...

Medical Devices NuVasive, Inc. Cervitech Inc.
Accelerates entry into the mechanical cervical disc replacement market. NuVasive expects to file for marketing approval of the Cervitech device in more...

Medical Devices Patterson Medical DJO Incorporated.
The sold unit is DJ's rehab equipment and supply catalog business, which generated annual sales of $32m in 08 and was considered non-core. The more...

Medical Devices Pulmonx Corporation Emphasys Medical, Inc.
Strengthens Pulmonx in treating emphysema patients. The deal provides for a possible solution for endobronchial lung volume reduction (ELVR) that more...

Medical Devices SonoSite Inc. CardioDynamics
CardioDynamics has a direct sales channel in the U.S. with 38 sales representatives calling on cardiologists, internal medicine and family medicine more...

Medical Devices St. Jude Medical, Inc. Northstar Neuroscience, Inc.
Northstar developed an investigational device designed to deliver targeted stimulation to the cerebral cortex. The deal adds to St. Jude’s more...

Medical Devices Tolmar Holding, Inc. Zila, Inc.
With Zila edging toward bankruptcy, Tolmar picks up an oral cancer screening system at a discount. Deal value --at a discount $4m plus the purchase more...

Medical Services Express Scripts, Inc WellPoint, Inc.
NextRx services roughly 25m in the U.S. and manages more than 265m scripts per year. It will be folded in Express Scripts’ network of integrated more...

Medical Services Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. Northwest Prosthetic & Orthotic Clinic and Inline Orthotic and Prosthetic Systems
Adds patient care centers to existing markets in Washington and more...

Medical Services Magellan Health Services, Inc. First Health Services Corporation
Allows Magellan to expand into a new area, Medicaid pharmacy benefits administration, that is complementary to its existing businesses. The deal also more...

Medical Services MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. Spacelabs Healthcare, Inc.
Creates a broad product offering of cardiac safety and efficacy services for Phase I through IV clinical trials to pharmaceutical, biotech and more...

Medical Services Stericycle, Inc. MedServe, Inc.
MedServe has been run by Avista Capital Partners, Chrysalis Ventures and Murphree Venture Partners since 2006. MedServe subsequently bought close to more...




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