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Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 13, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 13, 2012.  There was some interesting biotech activity over the previous two weeks, including the closing by Oncolytics of its $18.5M equity financing and the withdrawal by Valeant of its offer to acquire ISTA Pharmaceuticals and its acquisition of a Brazilian food and sport supplement company.  [...]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 20, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for June 20, 2011.  Notable transactions from the previous week included the public offering of units by Resverlogix, as well as investments by HTX and the Business Development Bank of Canada in each of Milestone Pharmaceuticals  and Profound Medical Inc.  Read on to learn more.

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 [...]

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