Medtech Deals In Depth: February 2022

CooperCompanies' acquisition of Cook Group’s reproductive health business for $875m was the only blockbuster medtech/diagnostics deal in February.

Deals In Depth

[Editor's Note: A version of this article originally appeared in Informa's In Vivo, including detail on biopharmaceutical deals in February. The top February pharma M&A by deal value was Indian biosimilars company Biocon Biologics agreement to acquire Viatris’ biosimilars business for up to $3.3bn. Also Code Biotherapeutics and Takeda signed an agreement to leverage Code Bio’s proprietary targeted 3DNA non-viral genetic medicine delivery platform to design and develop gene therapies for a liver-directed rare disease program, plus central nervous system-directed rare disease programs.]

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