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Medtechs Ready To Take Creative Approach To Deal-Making With An Eye On Start-Ups

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Ground-breaking M&A deals were largely absent from medtech industry schedules in 2018 – Boston’s BTG deal aside – but that does not mean consolidation of the medtech industry is slowing down. M&A deal numbers have been steady of late, even if aggregate deal value has declined in recent years. Digital transformation is a catalyst for a growing number of sector-transforming transactions.

Anyone supposing that global medtech deals have hit the buffers would have been otherwise enlightened at the LSX World Congress, in London, in February 2019. True, Brexit might see confidence take a short-term dip, health systems are fighting for budget and using their reimbursement spends ever-more-carefully, and the forthcoming Medical Device Regulation is painting a somewhat forbidding picture for would-be start-ups up and device innovators in the EU.

But a high-level panel debate on the current climate for adding growth externally put to bed the notion that M&A...

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