Carlyle, Apax sell MediMedia USA to Vestar
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Two private equity groups -- The Carlyle   Group CYL.UL and Apax Partners -- said on Sunday they have   signed an agreement to sell healthcare marketing services firm   MediMedia USA Inc. to Vestar Capital Partners.
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Aether Systems Inc., a Maryland wireless data company that is selling off its operating units, said Wednesday it received a $30 million offer for a division it had already agreed to sell to another buyer for $25 million. -The Washington Post
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PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $502 million to buy all outstanding shares of common stock of Green Bay-based American Medical Security Group Inc.
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Bayer AG has agreed to sell its plasma products business to US investors Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand Ventures for US$590 million (euro445 million) in cash and stock, the German drug and chemical company said Monday.
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Smiths Group Plc, which makes insulin pumps and anthrax-detection systems for the US Postal Service, agreed to buy Medex Inc. for $625 million in cash to expand its medical-equipment division.
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The knee and ankle brace maker said it agreed to be bought by the medical device maker ReAble Therapeutics for about $1.6 billion including debt.
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An unusual alliance of US and European private equity firms has won the auction to buy Bermuda-based satellite business Intelsat. Europeans Apax and Permira and US firms Apollo Management and Madison Dearborn will pay $3bn for the business and assume $2bn ...
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Pharmacy-benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc.  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy PolyMedica Corp.  for $1.2 billion, in a move to expand its diabetes care services.
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Nasdaq Stock Market  has agreed to buy Nordic bourse owner OMX  for $3.7 billion, they said on Friday, as Nasdaq seeks to expand abroad following a series of rival stock market mergers.
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PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. (PHS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it agreed to buy American Medical Security Group Inc.
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Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday it sold $8.3 million worth of its Taxus drug-coated cardiac stents per day this month, a record level the Natick medical-devices giant said demonstrates it has won back doctors' confidence after three recalls.
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British property firm Segro has agreed  to sell its U.S. life sciences real-estate business to Health  Care Property Investors Inc. for $2.9 billion as it moves to  focus on Britain and continental Europe.
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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Smiths Group announced the acquisition of Medex, a privately held maker of medical devices. The cost of the deal was reported to be $925 million.
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The all-electronic US stock exchange Nasdaq is to buy OMX, which operates seven Nordic and Baltic exchanges, in an agreed takeover operation, OMX said in Stockholm on Friday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Onex Corp. conglomerate has signed a $980 million deal to buy two US health services companies owned by former Canadian transportation giant Laidlaw International Inc.
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Massachusetts is about to lose another corporate headquarters -- but not many jobs. In a $1.5 billion deal made public yesterday, Wakefield's PolyMedica Corp. , a mail-order company that sells drugs and supplies to diabetes patients, agreed to sell itself to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the country's biggest manager of drug benefits.