M&A activity in the health care industry is at its highest level since the 1980s. Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (2019 Edition) provides the reader with a roadmap to this booming sector, offering practical advice on how to address the various industry-specific issues arising in health care acquisitions. Its broad coverage, presented in Q&A format, is organized into four parts — structuring transactions, due diligence, documentation, and special topics.

Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book analyzes recent health care transactions and provides practice tips on how to avoid the various pitfalls that may be encountered while working on health care transactions. It covers dealmaking involving pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals, health insurers and private equity and financial services firms investing in the health care sector.

In addition to transactions involving outright acquisitions of health care companies, Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book reviews alternative structures used in health care M&A transactions, such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, product and portfolio acquisitions, option transactions, and licensing and collaboration agreements.

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