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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: 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 9, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 9, 2011.  Biotech activity was a bit slow last week.  Of note however is the minority shareholder oppression litigation launched against WEX Pharmaceuticals in the wake of the recent takeover by Pharmagesic (Holdings) Inc.  Read on to learn more.  

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 17, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 17, 2011.  Among other things, the past week saw a third extension of deadlines for Angiotech’s debt restructuring efforts, a management-approved take-over bid of WEX Pharmaceuticals, and American DARPA money being spent on Medicago for the development of a H5N1 vaccine.  Read on to learn more. [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: December 6, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review.  There was some activity with Angiotech last week, with extension agreements being executed extending certain deadlines dealing with Angiotech’s proposed recapitalization as well as a preliminary loss in court against Rex Medical L.P.  Read on to learn more, as well as your usual assortment of biotech news. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 15, 2010

Welcome to the Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 15, 2010.  Read on to learn about IMRIS’ proposed U.S. IPO, a mysterious merger in the making, and heart lasers (and how much they go for), together with your usual assortment of private placements, announcements and other biotech news. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 25, 2010

Welcome to your weekly review of Canadian biotech deals for October 25, 2010.  Last week’s notable transactions included the Qualifying Transaction of TSXV CPC company CCS Capital Inc. (now known as China Health Labs & Diagnostics Ltd.) and ProMetic’s strategic agreement with Allist Pharmaceuticals Inc., for the commercialization in China of two of ProMetic’s drug [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 18, 2010

Despite the short week, it was a busy one in the Canadian biotech sector. Read on to learn about the Labopharm / Paladin licensing deal, Ondine’s new facelift (and 15:1 equity liposuction), and various other biotech updates and news. 

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: June 7, 2010

This week saw a resurgence of deal activity on the Canadian landscape. Lots of good news here, including Resverlogix’s [$9.2m] haul and a $30m exit for Montreal’s Resonant Medical.  Not all was sunny though: Cynapsus downsized its unit price and Amorfix just downsized, while the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act got its own workout (har) this [...]

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 17, 2010

Lots of quarterly earnings announcements this week means a dip in deal activity. Still plenty of interesting stuff, though, including a new partnership and new listing plans for Tekmira. Meanwhile, for Medicago it’s graduation day, with a $10m present standby deal from Mom and Dad Yorkville Advisors on offer as it takes its symbol to the [...]

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: 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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