Deals

Eli Lilly on Tuesday continued its buying spree with a $1.4 billion acquisition of the radiopharma company’s pipeline of clinical and preclinical radioligand therapies.
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Analysts said the deal with Novo was likely giving Hims “‘credibility’ or increased consumer traffic,” adding that the “litigation risk is back on the table” now that the Danish pharma has stepped away.
Why did two private equity firms with more than $460 billion under management want a little old gene therapy biotech called bluebird bio? We wanted to know.
Big Pharmas like Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novartis headed back to the dealmakers table multiple times, with 32 total deals counted across the industry for the first half.
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Unnamed sources “familiar with the matter” informed Bloomberg that CStone’s leadership team is working with Goldman Sachs to determine if there are interested buyers.
Under the terms of the deal, Theravance and Innoviva are surrendering 85% and 15% of their stakes in Trelegy in exchange for $1.1 billion and $282 million from Royalty, respectively.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals plans to acquire ViaCyte for $320 million in cash. ViaCyte focuses on stem cell-derived cell replacement therapies that they hope will cure type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Innoviva Inc. and La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company announced Monday that they had entered into a $149-million merger agreement.
Seagen recently presented positive pivotal Phase II data from its trial of Tukysa (tucatinib) in combination with trastuzumab in HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer.
When GSK’s consumer health spinoff Haleon launches later this month, the new business will carry more than $12 billion in debt when it lists on the London Stock Exchange.
Portage Biotech announced Wednesday that it has inked an acquisition agreement with New York-based Tarus Therapeutics, adding four new candidates to its pipeline.
Merck is in late-stage discussions to acquire Seagen for about $40 billion according to a Wall Street Journal report.
As the global life sciences industry slows down, companies are gathering money through means other than VC funding. BioSpace shines a light on some of these recent transactions.
BioSpace caught up with Roland and Ben Buelow of Ancora, and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Galym Imanbayev to talk about the AstraZeneca deal and the company’s unique business model.