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M&A Deals Analysis: February Sees Billion-Dollar Buys Bite

 
• By Catherine Longworth

Despite being a slow month, megadeals abounded in February, as the medtech M&A market saw a hat-trick of billion-dollar deals. Medtech Insight recorded 12 deals for the month, on par with January's volume but down from 16 in February 2016.

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[Editors' note: For more details about M&A deals in 2017 and previous years, go to Medtech Insight's M&A deal tracker: https://medtech.pharmamedtechbi.com/datasets/mna]

After a lackluster start to the year, the medtech market sprung to life in February as companies started to spend big. Medtech Insight recorded 12 medtech M&A deals in February,...

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