Ethicon GYNECARE TVT Products→Caldera Medical
Asset Acquisition · Cash (asset acquisition) · announced Mar 20, 2025
Announced
Mar 20, 2025
Closed
Mar 20, 2025
Economics
Undisclosed
Cash (asset acquisition)
Terms not publicly disclosed
Target
Ethicon GYNECARE TVT Products
Pelvic Health · Clinical / therapeutic
HQ Raritan, NJ · Founded 1998
GYNECARE TVT family of minimally invasive mesh slings for stress urinary incontinence — TVT, TVT Exact, TVT-O, TVT Abbrevo; gold standard with 20+ years of clinical data
- Business Wire — Caldera Medical press release (Mar 20, 2025)
- Ethicon/J&J product portfolio documentation
- Caldera Medical press release - product line acquisition, 2025
Acquirer
Caldera Medical
Healthcare
HQ Los Angeles, CA
Women's health medical device company — pelvic floor and stress urinary incontinence solutions; 23-year focus on women's health
Why this buyer
Curated copy from the verified dataset — not an 8-K LLM summary
TVT family (TVT, TVT Exact, TVT-O, TVT Abbrevo) is gold standard for minimally invasive stress urinary incontinence treatment — 20+ years clinical data; Caldera maintains same manufacturing and team
Evidence ladder
Secondary (press / IR)
Business Wire — Caldera Medical press release (Mar 20, 2025)
Limitations
- Single-source or weak corroboration — treat valuation and timing as directional.
- Deal value not disclosed in verified record; multiples and comparables exclude this transaction.
Patient empowerment context
Patient empowerment baseline (HLTH 2022)
No curated mapping — Ethicon GYNECARE TVT Products (Pelvic Health). HLTH/Outcomes4Me 2022 baseline is Breast cancer care continuum (HLTH 2022). No curated mapping for this target in the verified crosswalk.
Research workspace (includes heuristic crosswalk) →Related verified workspaces
Lacuna is a curated public-source sample, not a census of women's-health M&A. Coverage varies by sector, geography, disclosure availability, and women's-health scope. Undisclosed transaction values are excluded from disclosed-value totals.
Curated verified dataset v9 · updated 2026-09-20 · 1 citations on this deal · Data compiled from public sources for educational visualization. Verify independently before any commercial use.