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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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The deal to acquire its rival, Pacific Biosciences, will provide Illumina with a more comprehensive sequencing test at a lower cost.
This year has been a strong one for biotech initial public offerings (IPO). According to the Wall Street Journal, as of mid-October, 55 biotech companies had raised $5.75 billion.
A summary of IPOs from companies in the biotech and pharma world since November 1, 2018.
October was a busy month as multiple biopharma companies made their debut as publicly traded entities and even more companies filed their intentions to go public with an initial public offering. BioSpace takes a look back at some of the key IPOs of the month.
It may not have always felt like it, but biotech has been in a bull market mode over the past two-and-a-half years, ever since the iShares Biotechnology Index (IBB) bottomed out at $80.01 on February 9, 2016.
As the acquisition of Shire by Takeda Pharmaceutical inches forward, global regulatory agencies are signing off on the deal. As the European Commission (EC) conducts a review of the deal, it hit a snag.
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OptiBiotix Health has named Adam Reynolds as Non-Executive Chairman of its new specialist probiotic subsidiary ProBiotix Health Limited. With 14 commercial deals in just under 18 months and a strong deal pipeline in place ProBiotix is well placed to become a stand-alone company.
What is AbbVie thinking? That’s the question of many investors, analysts and industry watchers as the Chicago-based AbbVie decided to buy up researcher partner Galapagos’ cystic fibrosis portfolio instead of walking away.
PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 9,200,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $5.00 per share, for total gross proceeds of approximately $46.0 million.