Deals
GSK and Hansoh Pharmaceutical’s antibody-drug conjugate success validates their partnership, one of the many deals in which Big Pharma has tapped a China company for promising cancer candidates.
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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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In an interview with CNBC Monday, Novartis Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan noted that the company is looking to become an entity that doesn’t draw its profits from treating disease, but will make money by providing cures.
Last year’s sole mega-deal, the acquisition of Dublin-based Shire by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical is finally closed. Takeda, 237 years old, is now a top 10 international drug company.
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A summary of IPOs from companies in the biotech and pharma world since January 1, 2019.
Eli Lilly and Company announced it was buying Loxo Oncology for $235 per share in cash, which comes to about $8 billion. The acquisition adds a lot of weight to Lilly’s oncology efforts.
- Company’s first foothold in the U.S.
Over the past decade, BMS has been no stranger to flexing its M&A muscle. The company made numerous focused-acquisitions that have positioned itself as a leader in oncology. BMS CEO Giovanni Caforio noted that the massive deal for Celgene is another piece to that puzzle.
Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Celgene Corporation to create a pharma giant with a significant pipeline focused on oncology, inflammatory and immunologic diseases, and cardiovascular disease.
Ohr Pharmaceutical is merging with NeuBase Therapeutics to create a public company working to advance NeuBase’s peptide-nucleic acid (PNA) antisense olignonucleotide (PATrOL) tech platform.
Cambridge, Mass.-based TCR2 Therapeutics is looking to secure $100 million in an initial public offering. Just before the end of 2018, the company filed its prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, hoping that the new year will continue the IPO frenzy biotech enjoyed for much of 2018.