There were 268 global PE healthcare deals valued at just $5 billion between Jan. 1 and Sept. 11, according to data from Thomson Reuters. This compares with 292 transactions totaling $14.26 billion for the same period in 2012, the data showed. TR is the publisher of peHUB.
This means that healthcare deal values have dropped a whopping 65 percent, while the number of transactions has fallen just 8 percent.
