Deals
After being bought by Bain for $3.3 billion, Tanabe has reached a deal to sell its manufacturing unit and 17 products.
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The total of 52 mergers and acquisitions for the first half of 2026 reflects what analysts, industry watchers and executives are saying over and over: M&A is back.
Dealmaking across biopharma is shifting dramatically as the SEC rolls out new regulations to ease burdens on newly public companies and antitrust review is replaced by drug pricing as the policy concern du jour.
Dual and even triple or quadruple track processes have come roaring back in 2026 thanks to a glut of M&A that has refilled investors’ wallets. Big Pharma is being put on notice that time is critical if they want to acquire.
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Chignolo D’Isola, Bergamo, Italy – July 1, 2019 – Flamma SpA, a preeminent Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization that develops, manufactures, and commercializes small molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry, is proud to announce that the company has acquired the Teva’s Chemical Synthesis Center in Malvern, PA in the Philadelphia area.
Novartis announced that it has completed its acquisition of Xiidra® 5%, the first and only prescription treatment approved to treat both signs and symptoms of dry eye by inhibiting inflammation caused by the disease.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but Lonza said it plans to retain the Novartis employees currently working at the facility.
EIB and German specialty pharmaceutical company PAION AG have signed a EUR 20 million loan agreement
The European Investment Bank will lend up to €20 million to PAION AG, a German pharmaceutical company specialised in anaesthesia and sedation drugs.
The company is working on developing therapies for neuropsychiatric diseases. Karuna is expecting data from a Phase II clinical trial later this year of KarXT xanomeline/trospium chloride, a muscarinic receptor modulator, to treat acute psychosis associated with schizophrenia.
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 20,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share, as detailed in the company’s press release.
Velabs Therapeutics GmbH announced the closing of a €3 million Series B financing round to advance its functional antibody screening programme and to strengthen its own pipeline of preclinical functional antibodies against diseases with poor treatment options.
NOXXON Pharma N.V. announced that the annual general shareholders meeting held on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Strawinskylaan 10, 1077 XZ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands approved all voting items.
Polarean Imaging plc, the clinical stage medical-imaging technology company, with a proprietary drug-device combination product for the visualisation of pulmonary function in the magnetic resonance imaging market, announces its audited final results for the year ended 31 December 2018.
Two of this week’s biotech startup initial public offerings, BridgeBio and Adaptive Biotechnologies, have market values exceeding the magic $1 billion mark, and have recently launched initial public offerings (IPOs), but also increased their fundraising goals.