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Biotech Trends Update — IP Constituencies: Innovator-Generic Mixing Continues in Canada

As traditional pharma companies continue to diversify their revenue sources in the face of their pending patent cliffs, we have followed their entry into and expansion of their generics business lines. We have also noted activity in the reverse – generics companies developing novel products to build their margins and take advantage of their production capacity and [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 4, 2010

This week’s Monday Deal Review brings you the usual assortment of biotech wheelings and dealings from the past week, including a summary of the newly completed Valeant / Biovail merger. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 27, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review. I am very excited to be writing for The Cross-Border Biotech Blog after working with Jeremy behind the scenes over the past three years. [ed. welcome (back) aboard!] It was a busy week for Canadian biotech companies, so let’s get started.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 16, 2010

Another decent week for Canada’s biotech companies, with about $30 million of securities sold and more deals launched. Big headlines this week for Alectos’ Alzheimer’s collaboration with Merck, which gets a US$289 million number but declines to split out the up-front payment or other details of the fee structure. Also, eHealth Ontario is spending significant [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 28, 2010

We follow a number of trends here at the blog, and two of them showed up as Canadian deals this week. Add those to the Biovail-Valeant merger, Æterna’s offering and a whole slew of commercial deals, and it’s been a pretty big week in Canadian deal-making.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 29, 2010

This week’s Canadian biotech deals include an acquisition by Biovail, Hæmacure’s BIA filing comes to a predictable end, MethylGene finds $8.9 million in its couch cushions from some Ontario numbered corps, Leap Medical leaps ahead with $1 million from MSBiV and other Quebec favourites, and BioSyntech borrows against its SR&EDs.  Those, plus more securities, debt [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 15, 2010

A busy Monday Deal Review is headlined by Labopharm and ProMetric on the securities front, MDS’ final divestiture on the M&Eh front and Biovail and Bioniche on the licensing front, and there’s lots more activity behind those for over $100 million of deals.  Check out all the details (and the witty headlines)

Monday Deal Review: August 31, 2009

This week Canada seems to have accounted for a significant chunk of the Western Hemisphere’s biopharma deal activity … by numbers, anyway. By dollars, all is dwarfed by the $3.1 billion Proctor & Gamble/Warner Chilcott deal, but don’t let that stop you from reading on

Post-Vacation Brain Dump: Deal Developments

Some exciting deal news from the week: Neuromed, which licensed U.S. rights to its lead candidate Exalgo to Mallinckrodt after Merck dropped out, entered into an interesting stock-for-stock merger deal with Cambridge, MA-based CombinatoRx that we’ll discuss further in this coming Monday’s deal review. Paladin Labs made a deal with Wyeth for a bundle of products that [...]

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