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Monday Deal Review: February 25, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 25, 2013!

This week saw significant activity on the investment front. Stem Cell Therepeutics and Sirona have each indicated an intention to raise funds through private placements, while Oncolytics Biotech is aggressively hoping to raise $32 million through a public offering. Sernova, Helix BioPharma and Amforfix have each closed their own private placements this week as well. On the M&A front, Cangene has closed their acquisition of the hemophilia compound IB1001, acquiring it through Inspiration Biopharmaceutical’s bankruptcy.

There’s more great stories this week, so click onward to see the whole week’s Deal Review.

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Monday Deal Review: January 21, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 21, 2013!  Medicago made news last week with a $15 million loan agreement with an unnamed pharmaceutical company. The funds are being used for Medicago’s plant-based VLP vaccine pipeline. As the agreement provides for potential licensing options with that partner, we will be watching closely to see any further announcements.

YM Biosciences, as it continues with its plan of arrangement transaction with Gilead, has received the endorsement of two proxy firms who have recommended to shareholders that they vote in favour of the transaction. This will likely allow YM Biosciences to obtain the shareholder approval required by statute to be able to continue with the arrangement.

Paladin labs, meanwhile, has closed their acquisition of a controlling stake in Ativa Pharma of Mexicom, and has also in-licensed a new biologic from Apeiron Biologics. Also, last week we saw Theratechnologies conclude their recent issues with the NASDAQ exchange by voluntarily delisting. They remain on the TSX, however.

As always, click through to see more on these deals as well as the rest of last week’s major biotech activity.

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Monday Deal Review: December 24, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for December 24, 2012.  While the past week was relatively slow as everyone prepared for holiday breaks, there was nonetheless a series of option grants, commercial agreements and even the closing of a major private placement and conversion of a convertible debenture.  Click onward to see more, and of course, we wish you a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

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Monday Deal Review: November 19, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 19, 2012. This past week saw the FTC give Valeant formal approval to acquire Medicis. A busy week on the investment front saw Kane Biotech, Lignol and MethylGene announce their intentions to raise capital. We also saw Abattis executing their previously announced licensing agreement with Vertical Design Systems for the use of Vertical’s plants, plant materials and extracts production technology. For more details on these sotries as well as many more, click through below!  
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Monday Deal Review: October 22, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for October , 2012.  A busy week on the licensing front saw commercial deals involving ProMetic Life Sciences, Abbatis Bioceuitcals and Paladin Labs.  In addition, Aeterna Zenatris closed their $15.2 million USD  public offering, which we covered last week.  Get the whole story on this week’s biotechnology news by clicking through. 
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Monday Deal Review: September 24, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 24, 2012. A busy week in investment stories includes Valeant’s launch of unsecured notes through its subsidiary VPI Escrow Corp, and MedX Health Corp.’s plans to offer 15,000,000 in common shares. Read on to learn more.
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Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 2, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 2, 2012.  There have been few large transactions over the previous weeks, but there have been some private placement financings and M&A activity, including the announcement of a takeover by Valeant of Russian-based Natur Product International for approximately $180M.  Read on to learn more.  Read more of this post

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