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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: 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

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: 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: May 2, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 2, 2011.  This review is a double feature from last week’s Easter break.  Plenty happened in the interim, with Angiotech developments, private placements, licensing and other interesting corporate transactions and announcements.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 7, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 7, 2011.  It was a fairly busy week for Canadian biotech – Angiotech has followed suit in the U.S. on the heels of last week’s CCAA filing, a number of acquisitions were announced, and there was some activity in biotech licensing.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 9, 2010

Catching up from the long weekend last week, we have a full two weeks’ worth of deals to bring you. Highlights include $16.7 million of securities closings, $8.25 million launched; and interesting developments in the Forbes Medi-Tech and Northstar Healthcare acquisitions. Check out what the last two weeks have wrought…

Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 5, 2010

Not a bad week for deals, considering the holiday weekend in both Canada and the U.S.. Response Biomedical placed a PIPE with OrbiMed funds, CTI did a follow-on round in Zymeworks and LAB Research took an equity line. Plus a companion diagnostic deal from Aeterna, just as I’m planning for Diagnostics Asia in August. The week’s [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 10, 2010

Some people were on the move this week — not only did Sanofi Canada announce 70 R&D job cuts, but BioMS took on a new banker and Labopharm, CardioComm and GeneNews all get new faces. Despite the fact that it seemed half of the country’s companies and deal-makers were at BIO in Chicago this week, there [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 12, 2010

This week deals are back in full force, despite the fact that Tengion’s IPO was less popular than expected and Neovacs scaled back its planned IPO.  Highlights include Patheon raising $280 million from its note placement, Verio Therapeutics getting phagocytosed by Fate (but remaining in Ottawa) and Lorus Therapeutics’ F-1 filing for a $17.5 million unit [...]

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