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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: 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 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: 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: May 16, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 16, 2011. Angiotech has completed its second amended and restated plan of compromise or arrangement, cleaning up USD$250M in debt in respect of 7.75% senior subordinated notes, which are now cancelled, and has also resulted in the restructuring of $325M of existing floating rate notes through [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 18, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 18, 2011.  Just by way of FYI, readers may be interested to know that The Canadian Institute will be hosting its 5th annual conference on Drug Pricing and Reimbursement in Canada in Toronto from June 14 – 15 at the Sutton Place Hotel.  The conference aims [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: December 13, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review.  It was a bit of a slow week this week, with a few small private placement announcements, and some activity in the licensing sector.  Read on to learn more.  

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 31, 2010

Things are picking up a bit this week, with a few new financings, some collaboration agreements and a deal in the venture capital community that coincided with the CVCA’s annual meeting.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 3, 2010

I guess the excitement of BIO was driving deals this week. To the delight of the economic development folks, government was in on the action — Ontario announced a BIP investment and announced a whole new strategy, and OICR funded three equity deals. The private sector was also out in force, with four new licensing deals [...]

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 Biotech Deal Review: January 4, 2010

Welcome back, and happy 2010! If you’ve been away for a couple of weeks, check out the winners and losers from our 2009 Trends, and the year’s top posts. If you’re just here for the deals, don’t fret, we have those too: a busy bunch of closings ended 2009, with almost $12 million flowing into [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 23, 2009

A slightly delayed Deal Review this week because of some non-biotech deal activity.  Live, from New York, it’s the Deal Review!

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 2, 2009

In this week’s Deal Review: SemBioSys hops on the SIFT Tax bandwagon; new deals from Microbix, OPMEDIC and GeneNews; and good updates from iCo Therapeutics, QLT, Noveko and Oncolytics.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 25, 2009

A very busy deal week coincided with a very busy work week (for those of us with day jobs), so allow me a particularly grateful thank-you to Jacob Cawker, who’s been an invaluable help with the Deal Review this and the last several weeks.  After the jump, licenses both inbound, outbound and just tied up (optioned); securities extended and [...]

Trends Update — Commercialization by Nonprofit Foundations: iCo-CPDD Deal, plus MJFF Comes to Canada

One of the trends we’ve been keeping an eye on this year is the increasing willingness of nonprofit foundations to fund and support commercial product development.  Two updates today: iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSX-V: ICO) is collaborating with the Consortium for Parasitic Drug Development (CPDD) to optimize one of iCo’s products for tropical conditions.  (That’s CPDD as [...]

Monday Deal Review: July 20, 2009

This week’s deal review has some more info about Ambrilia’s deal with Kotinos that I tweeted about at the time (my Twitter stream shows up in the sidebar on the right here), as well as an update on JLL-Patheon and a raft of securities deals, including an issuer bid

Monday Deal Review: March 9, 2009

A big dose of Canadian deals and company info from this week

Monday Deal Review: February 23, 2009

Canadian deals and company info this week

Monday Deal Review: February 16, 2009

An interesting collection of goings-on in this week’s special President’s Day / Family Day edition of the Monday Deal Review

Monday Deal Review: February 2, 2009

Canadian deals we found this week:

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