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Tag Archives: Merus Labs International

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 9, 2012

Happy New Year and welcome back to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 9, 2012, following a holiday hiatus.  Link below to our review of transactions that have occurred over the previous three weeks.  Noteworthy transactions include various acquisitions by Valeant as well as a refinancing of its existing debt facilities.   Read on to learn [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 21, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 21, 2011.  The week appears to have been dead quiet on the biotech front, with only a handful of items, including the announcement by Response Biomedical of an $8M equity financing by way of a rights offering.  Read on to learn more. 

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 17, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for October 17, 2011.  This week’s deal review is a double feature following last Monday’s Canadian thanksgiving holiday.  Of note from the past two weeks were the acquisition of Labopharm by Paladin Labs, and its announcement that it is ceasing its hostile takeover pursuit of Afexa. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 19, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 19, 2011.  Of note in the past week was the extension of the hostile bid by Paladin Labs of Afexa Life Sciences to September 28th, the application by Merus to graduate to the TSXV, and the filing by Allon Therapeutics of a short-form preliminary prospectus.  Read [...]

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: March 29, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for March 28, 2011.  There was a flurry of financing activity last week, with over $76M raised or announced in biotech funds (not including the $60M Genome Canada investment announced by the Government of Canada).  Double-digit million-dollar deals included MethylGene’s $34.5M private placement announcement, Medicago’s $17M private placement [...]

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