Mergers & Acquisitions
Teleflex makes stealthy buy of InnoLap Surgical’s microlaparoscopy tech
Report: Private equity giants vie for Johnson & Johnson’s Ortho Clinical Diagnostics biz
Kinetic Concepts forms trinity with LifeCell and Systagenix
Just weeks after the $485 million merger of Kinetic Concepts and Systagenix, the duo plans to merge forces with LifeCell Corp., forming a 3-headed hydra of wound care, biologics and regenerative therapies.
The new company will be run by KCI president & CEO Joe Woody, with LifeCell commercial operations chief Phil Croxford as senior vice president and "permanent leader" of LifeCell, according to a joint statement.
Will the Stryker-Mako deal lead to more action in ortho?
PE shop KKR spends $1.7B on 80% stake in Panasonic Health
Robotic surgery: Stryker agrees to pony up $1.65 billion for Mako Surgical
Baxter makes a smaller buy with $9.5M acquisition of FlowSense
Corrected September 11, 2013, at 3:30 p.m.*
Report: Will 2013 be the decade’s most disappointing year for medtech M&A?
Unless there’s a major shift in in merger and acquisition activity in the next few months, 2013 may turn out to be the most disappointing year in about a decade for medtech M&A, according to a report by EvaluateMedTech.