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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: 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: September 26, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 26, 2011.  Noteworthy news from last week included a hint that Labopharm will enhance its offer for the shares of Afexa Life Sciences if its two shareholder rights plans are waived or cease-traded by the ASC.  As well, Medicago announced a significant private placement for proceeds [...]

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: September 12, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 12, 2011.  We hope everyone had a restful labo(u)r day long weekend, both north and south of the border.  This week’s biotech deal review is a double feature owing to last week’s holiday.  There has been a lot of activity in the past two weeks, including the [...]

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: 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: July 25, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 25, 2011.  Interesting tidbits from last week included the termination of the letter of intent relating to the proposed reverse-takeover transaction between Bradmer Pharmaceuticals and P1 Energy Corp., a distribution and marketing agreement between Valeant and Sanofi-aventis Canada, a $15M loan agreement between Protox Therapeutics and [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: June 13, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 13, 2011.  Notable stories include the completion of GeneNews’ early warrant exercise program and debenture conversion opportunity, resulting in gross proceeds of nearly $3M to the Company.  As well, Somaxon and Paladin Labs have teamed up for the commercialization of Selinor in Canada, South America and [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 30, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for Monday May 30, 2011.  This week features summaries of the previous two weeks’ events in the biotech space, following the May 24 holiday weekend.  There hasn’t been too much activity, however Valeant is on the move, acquiring AB Sanitas for EUR 314M in cash.  Read on to [...]

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: 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 28, 2011

Welcome to your Monday biotech deal review for February 28, 2011.  In addition to the usual reviews of biotech corporate activity, this week featured the announcement of Theratechnologies’ U.S. IPO, the closing of a $40M bought deal by Paladin Labs, Angiotech’s recapitalization amendment and the appointment of a Receiver for LAB Research.  Read on to [...]

2010 Canadian Healthcare Review: Success and Momentum Building

We had just finished the Q3 2010 report when I attended BioContact Québec in early October and the mood was discouraging. My co-author on these reports (James Smith, VP-Healthcare at Equicom) was in San Francisco in January for the annual JP Morgan conference and he described the overall mood as optimistic. What happened in those [...]

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: January 31, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 31, 2011.  Angiotech has voluntarily entered into CCAA proceedings and will continue its restructuring efforts there.  There was also some investment activity involving government agencies in Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island.  Read on to learn more, as well as the usual assortment of biotech news [...]

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 “Happy Holidays” Deal Review: December 27, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech “Happy Holidays” Deal Review!  For those who may have noticed, last week the Monday Biotech Deal Review took its own holiday, so this week’s digest contains biotech news spanning the past two weeks – to ensure you don’t miss a single drummer boy’s beat.  It has been a busy two [...]

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 Deal Review: November 1, 2010

Welcome to the Monday Deal Review for November 1, 2010.  This week’s review contains the news of a possible recapitalization of Angiotech, following its deferral of interest payments on 7.75% Senior Subordinated Notes due October 1, 2010.  Read on to learn more, as well as other happenings from last week’s biotech scene.

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: 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 [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 22, 2010

Bought deals are all the rage this week, with BioExx and Osta Biotechnologies both heading in that direction.  Also, everywhere we look, warrants are being exercised and debentures are being converted. We even noted the green shoots of a new Canadian listed biotech company poking through the ground via a CPC transaction.  Is there a [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 8, 2010

A busy week in Canadian deals, with Paladin Labs in a global transaction with SpePharm; M&A activity from therapeutics and consulting companies; the last of the SIFT/SR&ED deals; over $20 million of new offerings from BioSign, Bradmer and YM; government funding for Medicago and Isotechnika; a new standby equity deal from Yorkville for Allon; and the [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 1, 2010

This week saw a lot of offerings move forward, in the shadow of Anthera’s shrunken and postponed IPO, but the news wasn’t all good in Canada either. ConjuChem filed for restructuring, and other companies are still holding on by their teeth. See who’s who

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 22, 2010

There was a lot of follow-up among Canadian biotech deals this week: letters of intent turning into definitive agreements, merged companies turning to consolidation, bids launched on schedule and wrapped up; as well as an average crop of new M&Eh and securities.  Start things off with an interesting (cross-border!) twist to the SIFT/SR&ED deals we’ve [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 4, 2009

Read on for all the details of QLT’s sale of its U.S. subsidiary, as well as more M&A and a series of securities deals from Canadian companies this week

NRC-IRAP Is On A Roll: 7 Bio Investments in 7 Weeks

NRC-IRAP,* which got $170 million in Canadian stimulus money, has been deploying funds quite rapidly and has included a significant number of biotechs in its largesse.  I found these from July and August: a $260,000 grant to ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc.; a $498,500 grant to Opsens Inc. (TSX-V: OPS); an undisclosed amount to Paladin Labs (TSE: PLB); a [...]

Monday Deal Review: August 17, 2009

In addition to the highlights already noted — Enobia’s $50 million r0und, and the LOM – BioQuest joint venture — there was plenty of other Canadian deal activity this week.  Check it out

Monday Deal Review: June 22, 2009

A whole gaggle of securities deals, a cluster of licenses and a flock of M&A all migrate back to Canada for summer in this week’s Monday Deal Review.  Plus, a deal that may improve the medical isotope shortage.  

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