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Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 14, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 14, 2012.  Highlights from the previous week include the $5 million private placement announced by Lorus Therapeutics and other equity financing announcements, but otherwise the week has generally been a slow one.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 7, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 7, 2012.  Highlights from the previous week include the announcement by Valeant of its agreement to acquire assets from University Medical Pharmaceuticals Corp. for approximately $64M as well as the announcement of Merus’ $10M bought deal private placement and the completion of Allon Therapeutics’ $10M brokered [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 30, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 30, 2012.  It was a slow week last week, with a couple of private placement closings, a business unit purchase and some commercial activity.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 23, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 23, 2012.  Deals from the past week were slow, but included a $10M brokered private placement by Allon Therapeutics and the completion of Warnex’ new credit facility.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 2, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 2, 2012.  There have been few large transactions over the previous weeks, but there have been some private placement financings and M&A activity, including the announcement of a takeover by Valeant of Russian-based Natur Product International for approximately $180M.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 12, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for Monday March 12, 2012.  Following a break, the Monday Biotech Deal Review is back with summaries of biotech transactions over the previous weeks.  Activity has been impressive over the past month, with pharma-giant Valeant Pharmaceuticals syndicating $600M in senior secured indebtedness under its existing senior credit facility [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 13, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 13, 2012.  There was some interesting biotech activity over the previous two weeks, including the closing by Oncolytics of its $18.5M equity financing and the withdrawal by Valeant of its offer to acquire ISTA Pharmaceuticals and its acquisition of a Brazilian food and sport supplement company.  [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 30, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 30, 2012.  Juicy news from last week include the $15M bought-deal that Oncolytics entered into with a syndicate of underwriters, as well as the closing of other private placement financings.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 23, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 23, 2012.  Noteworthy news from the previous week include the sweetening of the offer by Valeant for ISTA Pharmaceuticals by an additional dollar per share ($7.50 from $6.50), and the adoption by ISTA of a shareholder rights plan to replace its recently expired plan.  Read on [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 16, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 16, 2012.   News from last week includes a  $5M raise by MedGenesis Therapeutics to support its therapeutic research for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, as well as a $70k private placement by PharmaGap.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 9, 2012

Happy New Year and welcome back to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 9, 2012, following a holiday hiatus.  Link below to our review of transactions that have occurred over the previous three weeks.  Noteworthy transactions include various acquisitions by Valeant as well as a refinancing of its existing debt facilities.   Read on to learn [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: December 12, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for December 12, 2011.  Microbix and PharmaGap each completed private placements, together raising over $1 million.  As well, Nuvo Research is purchasing the minority interest in its German subsidiary from Dr. Friedrich-Wilherm Kuehne.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: December 5, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for December 5, 2011.  Some equity investment activity occurred over the previous week, with Resverlogix closing its previously announced $17.5M private placement, Response Biomedical announcing an $8M rights offering, and various other small private placements.  As well, Valeant is going to fund its acquisition of iNova with debt, [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 28, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 28, 2011.  Notable events from the previous week include the announcement of a fully-subscribed brokered private placement by Resverlogix for proceeds of $17.5 million, as well as the announcement by Valeant of an agreement to acquire iNova (Valeant’s appetite for acquisitions continues, unabated), a prescription and OTC seller and [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 21, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 21, 2011.  The week appears to have been dead quiet on the biotech front, with only a handful of items, including the announcement by Response Biomedical of an $8M equity financing by way of a rights offering.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 14, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 14, 2011, marking the end of its one month hiatus.  The Monday Biotech Deal Review will now be resuming its normal weekly schedule.  Below are summaries of recent transactions over the past month, which includes the acquisition of Afexa by Valeant for $0.85 per Afexa share, in [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 17, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for October 17, 2011.  This week’s deal review is a double feature following last Monday’s Canadian thanksgiving holiday.  Of note from the past two weeks were the acquisition of Labopharm by Paladin Labs, and its announcement that it is ceasing its hostile takeover pursuit of Afexa. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 3, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for October 3, 2011.  Last week witnessed a flurry of financing activity, with over $50M closed.  As well, the competing take-over bids between Paladin and Valeant for Afexa heated up with both Valeant and Paladin sweetening their offers to Afexa shareholders.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 26, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 26, 2011.  Noteworthy news from last week included a hint that Labopharm will enhance its offer for the shares of Afexa Life Sciences if its two shareholder rights plans are waived or cease-traded by the ASC.  As well, Medicago announced a significant private placement for proceeds [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 19, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 19, 2011.  Of note in the past week was the extension of the hostile bid by Paladin Labs of Afexa Life Sciences to September 28th, the application by Merus to graduate to the TSXV, and the filing by Allon Therapeutics of a short-form preliminary prospectus.  Read [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 12, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 12, 2011.  We hope everyone had a restful labo(u)r day long weekend, both north and south of the border.  This week’s biotech deal review is a double feature owing to last week’s holiday.  There has been a lot of activity in the past two weeks, including the [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 29, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for August 29, 2011.  In addition to the usual private placement announcements and various commercial transactions, the ongoing hostile bid for Afexa Life Sciences was in the news, with the board of Afexa confirming its recommendation to shareholders to not tender their shares pursuant to the unsolicited bid [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 22, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for August 22, 2011.  This week’s deal review is brought to you by Norton Rose OR LLP articling student Keldeagh Lindsay, who will be with us during his articles and assisting in the deal review.  Steven Zuccarelli has done a great job over the summer, and we wish him [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 8, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for August 8, 2011.  The previous two weeks witnessed a flurry of investment activity, including the filing of final prospectuses by each of Lorus Therapeutics and Atrium Innovations in respect of equity and debt offerings, respectively.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 25, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 25, 2011.  Interesting tidbits from last week included the termination of the letter of intent relating to the proposed reverse-takeover transaction between Bradmer Pharmaceuticals and P1 Energy Corp., a distribution and marketing agreement between Valeant and Sanofi-aventis Canada, a $15M loan agreement between Protox Therapeutics and [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 18, 2011.  Of note over the past week was the completion of Trimel’s qualifying transaction under the TSX-V’s capital pool company regime, resulting in Trimel’s expected re-listing on the TSX.  Also noteworthy was Valeant’s buying spree in the dermatology sector, with the purchase of dermatology assets [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 11, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 11, 2011.  This week is a double feature, owing to last week’s break due to both Canada Day and Fourth of July holidays.  There was a lot of activity over the past two weeks in the biotech space.   Read on to catch up! 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 27, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 27, 2011.  There were a number of financings announced and closed in the previous week, as well as some M&A activity involving Cynapsus acquiring the shares of Adagio Pharmaceuticals.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 20, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 20, 2011.  Notable transactions from the previous week included the public offering of units by Resverlogix, as well as investments by HTX and the Business Development Bank of Canada in each of Milestone Pharmaceuticals  and Profound Medical Inc.  Read on to learn more.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 13, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 13, 2011.  Notable stories include the completion of GeneNews’ early warrant exercise program and debenture conversion opportunity, resulting in gross proceeds of nearly $3M to the Company.  As well, Somaxon and Paladin Labs have teamed up for the commercialization of Selinor in Canada, South America and [...]

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