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Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 23, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 23, 2012.  Noteworthy news from the previous week include the sweetening of the offer by Valeant for ISTA Pharmaceuticals by an additional dollar per share ($7.50 from $6.50), and the adoption by ISTA of a shareholder rights plan to replace its recently expired plan.  Read on [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 16, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 16, 2012.   News from last week includes a  $5M raise by MedGenesis Therapeutics to support its therapeutic research for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, as well as a $70k private placement by PharmaGap.  Read on to learn more. 

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: December 5, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for December 5, 2011.  Some equity investment activity occurred over the previous week, with Resverlogix closing its previously announced $17.5M private placement, Response Biomedical announcing an $8M rights offering, and various other small private placements.  As well, Valeant is going to fund its acquisition of iNova with debt, [...]

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: 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: 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

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: 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: March 21, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for March 21, 2011.  There was some interesting investment and commercial transactions announced and closed last week, including the $15M private placement announced by Novadaq, the $4M bond financing closed by SemBioSys and Pacgen’s announcement of a corporate makeover to accommodate its recent investments in the products of [...]

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 [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 14, 2011

Welcome to the Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 14, 2011.  Aside from the usual assortment of corporate and regulatory announcements over the week, the highlights include SemBioSys’ proposed $4M secured 7% bond issuance, Angiotech’s fifth extension to deadlines under its recapitalization support agreements (and definitive agreements in respect of up to $28M in DIP [...]

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 22, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Deal Review.  There was quite a bit of Canada / U.S. crossborder investment activity last week, with a $700M note offering by Valeant, IMRIS’ USD$52M public offering, and both IMRIS and Tekmira announcing their listing on the NASDAQ.   Read on to learn more, as well as the usual summaries of recent [...]

Monday Deal Review: November 8, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Deal Review.  The Canadian biotech sector was fairly busy this week, with approximately $17M in investment money flowing into biotech companies reviewed below.  Valeant is certainly raking the leaves this fall following the Biovail merger, settling lawsuits, entering a $1.5bn securities repurchase program, and entering strategic agreements this week after ending [...]

Monday Deal Review: July 20, 2009

This week’s deal review has some more info about Ambrilia’s deal with Kotinos that I tweeted about at the time (my Twitter stream shows up in the sidebar on the right here), as well as an update on JLL-Patheon and a raft of securities deals, including an issuer bid

Monday Deal Review: June 29, 2009

This week’s Monday Deal Review has a full set of equity deals from shelf to launch to close, one new U.S. registration and one deregistration to match, and some ideas for what to do with your debt (!), all

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.  

Monday Deal Review: March 30, 2009

Canadian deal and company info from this week

Monday Deal Review: March 23, 2009

A relativley light week for Canadian deal and company info this week, but we have all the news that’s fit to print (if not necessarily fit to distribute in the U.S.)

Monday Deal Review: March 2, 2009

Canadian deals and company info from this week

Monday Deal Review: February 23, 2009

Canadian deals and company info this week

Monday Deal Review: February 16, 2009

An interesting collection of goings-on in this week’s special President’s Day / Family Day edition of the Monday Deal Review

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