What You Should Know:
– The recent acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance by private equity firm Sycamore Partners is drawing scrutiny due to the high level of debt financing involved and questions surrounding Sycamore’s equity…
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What You Should Know:
– The recent announcement of private equity firm Sycamore Partners’ acquisition of national pharmacy giant Walgreens has sparked significant concern, particularly from the nonprofit watchdog Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP).
– PESP…
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Walgreens reaches an agreement to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners for $10 billion.
Sycamore is expected to keep the core US retail business and then either spin off or sell segments…
Editors note: This article has been updated with a quote from Walgreens to MobiHealthNews.A federal judge in Delaware ruled that Walgreens must pay $987 million as part of an arbitration award won by telemedicine…
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Walgreens announces Q1 results: revenue up 7.5%, EPS –$0.31 versus –$0.08, beating expectations for both. Shares of WBA, the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 last year, jumped 27% Friday on the news….
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San Francisco-based data intelligence and AI provider Databricks has raised $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing in a Series J funding round, completing $8.6 billion to date. The new funding brings the company’s valuation…
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Soda Health, which offers a benefits administration platform, has raised $50 million in Series B funding to expand its services, the company announced last week.
The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company connects health plans and their members…
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Retail health has had a rough past couple years, but there are still reasons to believe in the convenient model that retail health offers, according to Annie Lamont, managing partner and co-founder of venture…
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In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – Medtronic…
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It's the end of Day 3 here at the annual #HLTHUSA event.One of the most unique things about this year's event is the presence of exhibitors that we do not normally see at healthcare…
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