Am Law firms continue to feast on end-of-year health sector deals, with the latest coming in the form of buyout firm Madison Dearborn Partners’ agreement to buy a majority stake in medical supply company Ikaria in a deal worth roughly $1.6 billion.

As The Am Law Daily reported earlier this week, a spate of pharmaceutical M&A deals have created healthy workloads for a number of Am Law 100 firms as they approach the end of 2013.