While December 2016 rounded off with a final flurry of M&A activity, deal-making shifted down a gear in the first month of the new year. A total of 12 medtech M&A transactions were announced and recorded on Medtech Insight's M&A Data Tracker in January 2017, a decline from the 18 acquisitions in January 2016 and two fewer than December 2016. (Also see " MNA Analysis: 2016 Begins With Small List Highlighted By IVD Blockbuster " - Medtech Insight, 3 February, 2016.)
It continues the year-on-year downward trend in M&A deal volume, with 26 acquisitions tracked in January 2015