TEVA/BRL deal ranks as the third biggest healthcare deal, both worldwide and in the U.S., this year. It trails Novartis' pending $38 billion acquisition of Alcon and Takeda's $8.7 billion acquisition of Millennium. In terms of all healthcare deals on record, the Barr-Teva deal ranks as the 36th-biggest worldwide healthcare deal of all time, and the 23rd-largest ever in the United States.
The following list ranks the 10 largest healthcare deals, according to Thomson Reuters.