Select Medical in $2.3B buyout
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Acute care hospital operator Select Medical Corp. said Monday it will be acquired by a new company formed by a private equity firm for $18 per share in cash or about $2.
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Hospital operator HCA Inc.   is close to an agreement to be acquired by an investor group  for about $21 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts  in history, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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THE REGION 3Com Corp. shares rose in after-hours trading after The Wall Street Journal reported buyout firms are examining possible takeover offers for the unprofitable maker of computer-networking gear. Buyout firms such as Silver Lake Partners and Boston-based Bain Capital LLC approached 3Com about a purchase, the Journal said on its website. The two firms unsuccessfully sought last year to ...
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MINNEAPOLIS - UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it will acquire Definity Health Corp. of Minneapolis for $300 million cash. Definity is best known for offering what are commonly called consumer driven health
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HCA Inc. , the No. 1 U.S.  hospital chain, on Monday agreed to be acquired by an investor  group for about $21 billion in the second largest leveraged  buyout deal ever excluding HCA's debt.
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Gilead Sciences Inc.  said on  Monday it will acquire Myogen Inc.  for $2.5 billion,  gaining control of Myogen's experimental heart medicines.
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Bowing to pressure from an Icos Corp.  shareholder, Eli Lilly and Co.  said on Monday it has increased its offer for the biotechnology company to $2.3 billion from an earlier bid of $2.1 billion.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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Philips Electronics NV is to buy U.S.  medical products company Respironics Inc for 3.6 billion euros  ($5.2 billion), its biggest ever acquisition, as it expands in  the fast-growing healthcare sector.
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THE REGION Cambridge Drug maker Biogen Idec Inc. said it would start buying $3 billion worth of its own shares, potentially cutting the number of outstanding shares by one-sixth. Chief executive James Mullen said strong cash flows from sales of Avonex, for multiple sclerosis, and Rituxan, for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, allowed the company to return money to shareholders in a tender ...
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Johnson &amp; Johnson&#39;s$25.4bn purchase of Guidant, a medical device maker, will give the big US medical group a range of fast-growing products that manage patients&#39; heart rhythms, a move that will shake up the US medical device industry.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  has offered to buy larger eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a rival offer of $3.67 billion from private equity firm Warburg Pincus , sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest US health insurance company, has said that it will spend $300 million in cash to buy Definity Health, a smaller health technology company specializing in plans that allow consumers leeway in directing their medical spending
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Through its acquisition of Healthology, the company's bottom line should gain strength.
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The medical device maker reported a third-quarter loss of $272 million on charges related to acquisitions and asset sales, as the companyâs top-selling stent continued to slump.
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Roche Holding AG  has overcome Ventana Medical System Inc's  resistance to its takeover bid by raising the price, acquiring the diagnostics maker for $3.4 billion to boost its cancer testing business.
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Circuit City, the second-biggest  US electronics retailer, receives a $3.25bn takeover offer from private investment firm Highfields.