August M&A Analysis: Slow Month Highlighted By Unique Technologies

The dog-days of summer produced just a handful of mergers and acquisitions in the medtech sector and no blockbuster deals. However, several companies made smaller deals for innovative products in a range of sectors including IVDs, cardiovascular devices, and ophthalmology.

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There were only 13 medtech deals in August, according to Medtech Insight's Mergers & Acqusitions Tracker, and there were no deals worth more than $500m. But the few deals that did go through represent a broad spectrum of industry subsectors and innovative technologies.

The list of medtech deals for August includes eight for which the terms were not disclosed by the companies, four...

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