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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: December 12, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for December 12, 2011.  Microbix and PharmaGap each completed private placements, together raising over $1 million.  As well, Nuvo Research is purchasing the minority interest in its German subsidiary from Dr. Friedrich-Wilherm Kuehne.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 28, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 28, 2011.  Notable events from the previous week include the announcement of a fully-subscribed brokered private placement by Resverlogix for proceeds of $17.5 million, as well as the announcement by Valeant of an agreement to acquire iNova (Valeant’s appetite for acquisitions continues, unabated), a prescription and OTC seller and [...]

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

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: July 11, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 11, 2011.  This week is a double feature, owing to last week’s break due to both Canada Day and Fourth of July holidays.  There was a lot of activity over the past two weeks in the biotech space.   Read on to catch up! 

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: 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 21, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 21, 2011.  Among other news, Angiotech made some progress this week in CCAA proceedings with respect to its recapitalization, and Merck Canada has made another investment in Quebec’s biopharma sector, investing $6.8M.  Read on to learn more.  

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 24, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 24, 2010.  Despite a slow financing week, there were a few operational announcements as well as awards granted to Canadian biotech companies by the NIH and the UK’s Medical Research Council.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 10, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review.  2011 is off to a fast start in Canadian biotech!  Among other things, last week’s highlights included some interesting licensing activity, the completion by Bioniche of its A$12.5 million Australian offering, a $200k SEDA draw-down by Allon Therapeutics, Futuremed’s conversion to a corporation, and some regulatory and litigation [...]

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: 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: 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: July 26, 2010

Things were interesting for Forbes Medi-Tech (or at least its creditors), which saw a new bidder emerge for its assets. A few placements and other deals closed, some lower than expected. See who made it through the heat without wilting this week

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 18, 2010

Another strong week for Canadian deals. Light on securities, but heavy on M&A, licensing and partnerships.  MedGenesis and Cyplasin brought assets in, Canada and Australia are doing a do-sa-do (Topigen-Pharmaxis, YM-Cytopia), and Trillium Therapeutics signed an out-license to Biogen, while Medicure is shopping its lead program around.  Less good news for Haemacure and Forbes Medi-Tech, but plenty of other [...]

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: September 14, 2009

The Monday Deal Review is back in full force this week following a Labo(u)r Day vacation last week and there’s plenty of news including more information on the MDS-Danaher transaction and plenty of other companies finding ways to raise money and keep the lights on.  Keep reading

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

Monday Deal Review: May 25, 2009

This week’s deal review has a couple of new placements, a couple of new plants, a very interesting claim asserted in Boston, and many, many updates on deals we have previously covered.  Check out the full review

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