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Cooley’s 2024 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: M&A Slims Down in 2024, but Will Appetites Grow in 2025?

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As we discussed in Cooleys August 2024 Market Talks, the landscape for IPOs has continued to gain steam over the course of the year, with many companies opting for public offerings to capture investor interest. Similarly, Novo Holdings $16.5

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How Private Equity uses ‘Roll-up’ Strategies to Drive Investment Returns

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In this industry, owning 50 to 100 or more veterinary centers gives you procurement advantages in that you can buy much higher volumes of suppliers (syringes, medical equipment, etc.) As an aspiring private equity investor, you should be familiar with this trend and always be on the lookout for whatever industry may be next.

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Private Equity’s Increasing Consolidation of Oncology Practices 

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according to a recent report by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Business School that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Formerly owned by Tahoe Investment Group, which bought the company in April 2017, Alliance was acquired by Akumin, a publicly traded company, in June 2021 for $820 million.

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Cooley’s 2019 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2 Year of the Life Sciences Mega-Deals. billion acquisition of The Medicines Company.

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company.

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Cooley’s 2022 Tech M&A Year in Review

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Faced with depressed venture funding activity (which for digital health declined nearly 50% from 2021 ), an uncertain IPO market and pressure to provide liquidity to investors, M&A offered digital health startups a solution to deliver liquidity, streamline costs and bridge funding gaps as they continue to develop their products.

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Cooley’s 2021 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. Of the 20 largest public deals in the healthcare sector in 2021, 14 featured all?cash time highs in 2021.

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