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Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database - 4Q09



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Sector Acquiring Party Transferring Party
Biopharmaceuticals Abbott Laboratories PanGenetics B.V
The biologic (PG110) is released at sites of tissue damage and inflammation, and plays a significant role in the transmission of pain signals by the more...

Biopharmaceuticals BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Huxley Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
BioMarin gains the rights to a proprietary form of 3,4-diaminopyridine (3,4- DAP), amifampridine phosphate, for the rare autoimmune disease Lambert more...

Biopharmaceuticals Celgene Corporation Gloucester Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Celgene gains access to key drugs for patients with blood cancers with limited treatment options. The FDA recently approved Gloucester's drug more...

Biopharmaceuticals Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Calixa Therapeutics Inc.
Calixa's lead compound is being developed as a first-line intravenous therapy for the treatment of certain serious Gram-negative bacterial more...

Biopharmaceuticals Hospira, Inc. Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd.,
Gives Hospira access to Orchid's beta-lactam antibiotics manufacturing complex and pharmaceutical R&D facility in India, as well as its more...

Biopharmaceuticals La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
The combined company will focus on the development and commercialization of therapeutic products for hepatitis and influenza. Adamis recently more...

Biopharmaceuticals Novartis AG Corthera Inc.
Novartis gains the right to develop a new drug against heart failure. It hopes to complete the development of relaxin and market it in the United more...

Biopharmaceuticals Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Proteolix, Inc.
Proteolix's lead compound, carfilzomib, is a proteasome inhibitor currently in multiple myeloma clinical trials. It is pioneering a new class of more...

Biopharmaceuticals OPKO Health, Inc. Pharma Genexx S.A.
Helps OPKO expand internationally and adds to its ophthalmic candidates. OPKO has candidates for diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, inflammatory and more...

Biopharmaceuticals Sanofi-Aventis Fovea Pharmaceuticals SA
Expands Sanofi-Aventis' ophthalmic offerings. Fovea has a portfolio of three clinical compounds, a unique technology platform and several more...

Biopharmaceuticals TOLMAR Holding, Inc. QLT Inc.
Gives Tolmar an international brand -- QLT's prostate cancer drug, Eligard, is manufactured by TOLMAR. Deal value -- $30m plus up to $200m in more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Abbott Laboratories STARLIMS Technologies Ltd.
Strengthens Abbott in the global diagnostics market, providing advanced web-based applications to help laboratories store, retrieve and analyze a more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Cerner Corporation IMC Health Care, Inc
Strengthens Cerner’s position as a provider of comprehensive employer health services. It estimates that there are approximately 7,600 more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Emerson Avocent Corporation
Spanning several sectors in addition to healthcare, Avocent offers IT infrastructure management technology complementing Emerson's electronic more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Francisco Partners QuadraMed Corporation
New platform for Francisco Partners. Operating as a private company enables QuadraMe to focus on operations not short-term results for the public more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Fresenius Medical Care North America AG (FMS) Health IT Services Group
Fresenius acquired a web-enabled application designed by nephrologists providing physicians with a comprehensive clinical system integrating care, more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT GE Healthcare ONI Medical Systems, Inc.
Expands GE's MRI business with smaller footprint models for claustrophobic patients. There are more than 175 units installed worldwide. Terms not more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company Living Independently Group, Inc.
Follows GE's 2008 purchase of a minority ownership stake in Living Independently Group and the two companies agreement to market and co-develop more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Hospira, Inc. TheraDoc
TheraDoc's two leading products, Infection Control Assistant™ and Antibiotic Assistant™, join Hospira's portfolio of medication more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Ingenix CareMedic Services Inc.
With the acquisition, Ingenix can offer comprehensive solutions that address each major component of the hospital revenue cycle: patient more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT LifeSync Holdings, Inc. Motorola, Inc.
The patents describe the use of wireless, two-way, digital communication between patient-electrodes and an evaluator station for monitoring a more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Microsoft Corporation Sentillion Inc.
Sentillion's software provides access to a variety of health care applications--Windows-based, Web-based, and older legacy software. More than more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT Thoma Bravo, LLC AMICAS Inc.
New plaform. AMICAS offers a Web-based picture archiving and communications system to capture, store, manipulate, and distribute diagnostic images more...

Data Management/ Healthcare IT TPG Capital and the CPP Investment Board IMS Health Inc.
Deemed a "Barbarians at the Gate" transaction, this mega deal marks a return of the "good old days" of huge credits backing more...

Diagnostics Becton, Dickinson and Company HandyLab, Inc.
In May 2009, the companies agreed that BD would develop and commercialize molecular assays on the HandyLab Jaguar(TM) platform, a fully integrated more...

Diagnostics Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Biotest AG
Broadens Bio-Rad's offering in immunohematology and provides wider access to the U.S. markets. Biotest’s solutions in blood-group typing and more...

Diagnostics Clarient, Inc. Applied Genomics, Inc.
Provides Clarient with an active development engine for new diagnostic and prognostic cancer tests, especially for lung cancer. Deal value -- $17.6m more...

Diagnostics Gen-Probe Incorporated Prodesse, Inc.
Furthers Prodesse's strategy of commercializing differentiated molecular tests for infectious diseases, and provides additional leading-edge more...

Diagnostics OriGene Technologies, Inc. Marligen Biosciences, Inc.
Adds new assay panels and custom assays for drug discovery, leveraging OriGene's high throughput monoclonal antibody production capability. Terms more...

Diagnostics QIAGEN N.V. SABiosciences Corporation
PCR Arrays are widely utilized in biomedical research and in developing future drugs and diagnostics. SABiosciences developed more than 100 real-time more...

Distribution Henry Schein Inc Butler Animal Health Supply
Schein is paying $55m for a majority stake and combining its animal health businesses with that of Butler. The owners of Butler will receive $155m more...

Distribution Sarnova, Inc. Metropolitan Medical, Inc.
Sarnova plans to merge Metropolitan Medical with its Tri-anim Health Services brand, which specializes in respiratory and anesthesia products for the more...

Medical Devices Alcon Optonol, Ltd.
Optonol's implants are used to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients. The deal complements Alcon’s pharmaceutical products more...

Medical Devices Alphatec Holdings, Inc. Scient'x Groupe SAS
Will create the 3rd largest independent spinal company with a global span of product distribution; provides cross-selling opportunities strengthens more...

Medical Devices Biomet, Inc. Cartilix, Inc.
Cartilix developed ChonDux™, a proprietary cartilage regeneration technology for repair of knee cartilage. ChonDux™, which uses a more...

Medical Devices Cardo Medical Vertebron Inc.
Bought in a Chapter 11 auction. Cardo had licensed Vertebron's technology and now owns it. Extends Cardo's spinal offerings and entry more...

Medical Devices Essilor International FGX International Holdings Limited
Essilor offers a wide range of lenses to correct myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia, employs about 35,000 people and has a presence in 100 more...

Medical Devices Ethicon, Inc. Acclarent, Inc.
Provides a new ENT platform for J&J. Acclarent's endoscopic, minimally-invasive devices (i.e., Balloon Sinuplasty™ technology) that are more...

Medical Devices Facet Solutions, Inc. Archus Orthopedics
Strengthens Facet Solutions' position in posterior lumbar spine motion preservation surgery. Archus is a failed venture-backed company, which more...

Medical Devices Kimberly-Clark Corporation Baylis Medical Company
Kimberly-Clark had been the exclusive distributor of Baylis’ pain management products in the U.S. since 2001. K-C holds the No. 1 and No. 2 more...

Medical Devices Kimberly-Clark Corporation I-Flow Corporation
Grows K-C's health care business to include higher-growth, higher-margin medical devices and adds established technology to its pain management more...

Medical Devices Medical Imaging Holdings, Inc. Misonix, Inc.
Will be combined with the private equity firm's Barrington Medical Imaging and Echoserve units. Sonora makes proprietary test equipment and more...

Medical Devices ResMed Inc. Laboratories Narval
Resmed gains the Narval O.R.M.(TM) mandibular repositioning device (MRD), addressing snoring and mild cases of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In more...

Medical Devices Roper Industries, Inc. Verathon, Inc.
Verathon's noninvasive BladderScan® instrument is a standard of care for portable ultrasound bladder volume measurement, and its Video more...

Medical Devices Smith & Nephew PLC Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Since 2001, S&N held exclusive license for the sale of the ACTICOAT™ dressing line owned by Nucryst. The deal gives it full control over the more...

Medical Devices Sonova Holding AG Advanced Bionics Corporation
Represents a strategic expansion for Sonova into cochlear implants, leveraging its major hearing system market position globally. Advanced Bionics more...

Medical Devices Stryker Corporation OtisMed Corporation
OtisMed will focus on customizable instrumentation to complement Stryker's Triathlon Knee System, as well as other Stryker implants. Separately, more...

Medical Devices Stryker Corporation Ascent Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Ascent reprocesses external fixation devices originally made by Stryker, Synthes, Smith & Nephew and DePuy Orthopedics. Ascent has had testy more...

Medical Devices Syneron Medical Ltd. Primaeva Medical, Inc.
Primaeva developed a minimally invasive RF aesthetic device for the treatment of skin wrinkles and laxity and adds to Syneron's aesthetic more...

Medical Devices The Riverside Company Precision Wire Components LLC
A new platform specializing in small-diameter guidewires for minimally invasive procedures. PWC produces over 1,300 SKUs for approximately 300 more...

Medical Services Candescent Partners The Center for Wound Healing and affiliated companies
This new platform develops and operates comprehensive wound care centers utilizing a combination of traditional wound care and hyperbaric oxygen more...

Medical Services Dormir, Inc. Pacific Sleep Medicine Services Inc. and Sleepwell Partners LLC
With the deal, Dormir gets 15 locations in California, Oregon, and Utah; it now operates centers in 16 states. It becomes the #2 sleep provider in more...

Medical Services H.I.G. Capital, LLC Allion Healthcare, Inc.
Allion, a new platform for H.I.G., operates two segments: (a) Specialty HIV distributes medications, ancillary drugs and nutritional supplies and (b) more...

Medical Services PPD, Inc. BioDuro LLC
Positions PPD to become a leading CRO in China. Founded in 2005, BioDuro operates a state-of-the-art, 110,000-square-foot laboratory in Beijing. more...

Medical Services RehabCare Group, Inc. Triumph HealthCare
The combined organization will represent the 4th largest post-acute hospital operator and the 3rd largest LTACH provider in the U.S., with 29 LTACHs more...

OTC/Consumer Sanofi-aventis Chattem, Inc.
Creates the world's 5th-largest consumer healthcare company measured by product revenues. OTC and consumer brands are core growth platforms more...




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