Going Early For Maximum Long Term Value From Medtech Deals

For Medtech Deal-Makers The Best Opportunities Must Be Developed Well In Advance Of M&A

22 Feb 2022

Strategics pursuing high growth M&A plays are often ready to pay a premium price for a target. But with medtech valuations at historic highs, they cannot afford to do that every time. One solution is to take a strategic stake and build early, according to an AdvaMed panel hosted by EY’s John Babitt.

“I would never have thought 2021 would turn out as it did,” said John Babitt, a Minneapolis-based partner with EY. He was referring to the uncharted heights achieved last year in medtech M&A deal-making and venture capital funding.

For 2021 as a whole, $111bn was paid out on 64 medtech M&A deals. Both of these were record numbers,...