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Monday Biotech “Happy Holidays” Deal Review: December 27, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech “Happy Holidays” Deal Review!  For those who may have noticed, last week the Monday Biotech Deal Review took its own holiday, so this week’s digest contains biotech news spanning the past two weeks – to ensure you don’t miss a single drummer boy’s beat.  It has been a busy two [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 14, 2009

The Monday Deal Review is back in full force this week following a Labo(u)r Day vacation last week and there’s plenty of news including more information on the MDS-Danaher transaction and plenty of other companies finding ways to raise money and keep the lights on.  Keep reading

Monday Deal Review: July 6, 2009

Learn more about Neuromed’s deal with CombinatoRx, check out what MedMira’s been doing with all the cash from its equity line, and find out who’s closed deals and who’s just closing doors in this week’s Monday Deal Review

Monday Deal Review: June 22, 2009

A whole gaggle of securities deals, a cluster of licenses and a flock of M&A all migrate back to Canada for summer in this week’s Monday Deal Review.  Plus, a deal that may improve the medical isotope shortage.  

Monday Deal Review: May 25, 2009

This week’s deal review has a couple of new placements, a couple of new plants, a very interesting claim asserted in Boston, and many, many updates on deals we have previously covered.  Check out the full review

Monday Deal Review: May 18, 2009

A fairly quiet week on the deal front, but if Becton Dickinson can sell $750 million of 10- and 30-year notes just for the heck of it, things in the market can’t be too bad, right?  Here’s what I saw on the wires this week…

Canadian M&A: Akela Pharma and Nventa to Merge, Akela Shareholders to Own 70%

Akela Pharma Inc. (TSX: AKL) and Nventa Biopharmaceuticals (TSX: NVN) will merge by exchanging 0.0355 Akela shares for each Nventa share, resulting in an approximate 70/30 ownership split between Akela and Nventa shareholders, respectively, in the combined entity. The public company will retain Akela’s name, management, and ticker symbol (AKL).  The arrangement arrangement was unanimously [...]

Monday Deal Review: March 16, 2009

M&A: We already noted the JLL bid for Patheon this week, and the Patheon Special Committee’s response.  It turns out that JLL has been a busy enterprise lately, extending the expiration on a bid for PharmaNet Development Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDGI). Partnering: MedMira Inc., (TSX-V:MIR, NASDAQ: MMIRF), which has been active on the securities front with a [...]

Wednesday Brain Dump: February 11, 2009

Deep Appreciation:for Phillip Terrence Ragon, founder and sole proprietor of database-software provider InterSystems who donated $100 million to establish a research institute that focuses on expediting the development of an AIDS vaccine, and to Pfizer Canada which contributed a further $2 million to British Columbia’s Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD); and The State [...]

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