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Going private could give Recordati strategic flexibility and a stable source of capital, according to CVC Capital Partners and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, which are offering to take the Italian pharma private for a 13% premium.
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European pharma companies splashed billions of dollars into the U.S. biopharma sector in a matter of days, but there are differing views on whether the activity represents the rise of a new buyer class or a quirk of timing.
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After years of suffering from a bear market and more than 14 months of geopolitical turmoil shaking the macroenvironment, biotech appears to be moving on.
With six acquisitions already this year, Eli Lilly’s business development shows no signs of stopping as executives make good on a promise to spend their GLP-1 gains.
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Galapagos NV announces a share capital increase arising from warrant exercises.
Only a few months after GlaxoSmithKline acquired Waltham, Mass.-based Tesaro, Tesaro released promising data from its Phase I/II GARNET study of dostarlimab in endometrial cancer.
This morning Starboard Value LP issued an investor presentation opposing the proposed deal. The group will share the materials with other shareholders in hopes to sway support for its opposition.
Alcon said the acquisition of PowerVision demonstrates its commitment to bringing advanced technology intraocular lenses to cataract patients across the globe.
Polyphor AG (SIX: POLN), a clinical stage, Swiss biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of antibiotics and immuno-oncology compounds announced its financial results for the full-year of 2018.
Auris Medical Holding AG announced that it has filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
France-based GenFit launched its $132 million initial public offering plans in order to raise funds that will be used to support the Phase III trial and planned commercialization of its elafibranor compound for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
GENFIT S.A. announced its intention to issue and sell, subject to market and other conditions, 5,000,000 of its ordinary shares in a global offering to specified categories of investors, comprised of an initial public offering of American Depositary Shares, each representing one ordinary share, in the United States, and a concurrent private placement of ordinary shares in Europe and other countries outside of the US.
Intranasal betahistine program progressing towards proof-of-concept studies in acute vertigo (AM-125) and antipsychotic-induced weight gain (AM-201)
Shares of Insys plunged more than 25 percent in trading Wednesday after the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it could soon run out of revenue and may have to resort to liquidating its assets.