Medical Device and In Vitro Diagnostics/Research Deal Statistics Quarterly, Q1 2009
Highlights from the Q1 2009 review of medical device and in vitro diagnostics/research dealmaking. Device financing activity remained down bringing in only $522 million--the majority invested through VCs, mostly via late-stage venture rounds--not much change from the previous quarter, but a significant drop from Q1 2008, which saw $920 million. Device M&A brought in $4.4 billion, double the previous quarter, but most of Q1's money came from Abbott's $2.86 billion purchase of Advanced Medical Optics. Four other transactions topped the $200 million mark, including three deals by device giant Medtronic, which grabbed cardio companies CoreValve, Ventor Technologies, and Ablation Frontiers. There was also a decline in in vitro diagnostics and research fund-raising with 2009's opening quarter only seeing about half the dollars of Q4 2008.
In this issue, we present a review of medical device and in
vitro diagnostics/research dealmaking for the first quarter of
2009. Our data are derived from Elsevier's Strategic
Transactions.
Norbie Longman, Amanda Micklus, and Maureen Riordan
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