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UDG Healthcare

August 2018

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Healthcare services group UDG announced two eps enhancing acquisitions for a combined consideration of up to US$82.4m.Larger of the two is Create NYC, a New York-based healthcare creative communications agency, offering sales and marketing services for international pharmaceuticals clients. The deal will cost US$17m up-front (around 2.5x operating profit) with a US$41.4m five year earn-out.The other purchase was of SmartAnalyst, a US-based strategic consulting and analytics business focused on pharmaceuticals and the biotech sector and particularly in the health economics and outcomes space. Liberum believes such assessments will continue to increase in the US forcing a shift in overall drug development. UDG acquired it for u ...

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