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After a strong open to the year, the public markets suffered a six-month drought that led to biotech’s tightest IPO window in years.
While Novartis secured the biggest deal of the fourth quarter, a handful of riveting tales emerged from the bottom of the M&A list, including a zombie buyout and a bidding war. And no, we’re not talking about Metsera.
Four of this year’s biggest acquisitions topped 11-figure figures. One was 2025’s messiest bidding war.
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Retrophin, Inc. reported its second quarter 2019 financial results and provided a corporate update.
Gene therapy companies could be continued M&A targets for larger ones as more and more companies are looking to broaden their therapeutic focus with potential one-time therapies for various diseases.
Permira initiated the transaction after Cambrex flexed its own M&A muscle and acquired Avista and Halo.
Oxford Immunotec Global PLC, or the Company, a global, high-growth diagnostics company, announced second quarter 2019 financial results.
Funding will finance further development and IVD-CE marking of the company’s first molecular POC (Point of Care) platform, based on Pulse Controlled Amplification (PCA) technology
The owners of Cytena GmbH have agreed to sell all Cytena shares to CELLINK AB for a purchase price of 30.25M euros.
CELLINK AB has entered an agreement with the owners of cytena GmbH to acquire all cytena shares for a purchase price of 30.25M euros.
Loan reduced from US$30 million to US$11.5 million
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. announced that on August 1, 2019, the compensation committee of GBT’s board of directors granted 14 new employees options to purchase an aggregate of 26,200 shares of the company’s common stock with a per share exercise price of $54.25 and restricted stock units for an aggregate of 69,450 shares of the company’s common stock.
South San Francisco-based RAPT Therapeutics announced it is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) it filed earlier to raise $86 million via selling 5 million shares at $14 to $16 per share. No reasons were given for the postponement.