Mergers & acquisitions
Arena Pharmaceuticals’ share price nearly doubled in premarket trading after Pfizer announced it was acquiring the company and its diverse portfolio of developmental and clinical assets.
Recursion entered into a billion-dollar “transformational collaboration” with Roche to identify and develop up to 40 new medications for neuroscience and oncology.
Biopharmaceutical firm Alvotech Holdings announced merger plans with Oaktree Acquisition Corp. in a deal that will create a combined entity worth around $2.25 billion.
After Sobi agreed to be acquired by Advent International and GIC Special Investments, the deal has fallen through after AstraZeneca withheld its 8% stake from the buyout offer.
23andMe raised $592 million in proceeds from the IPO and, as of September 30, had about $700 million. With that cash in hand, it plans to push faster and deeper into drug development.
The takeover is part of the French biotech giant’s “Play to Win” strategy of growing its global vaccines pipeline through the acquisition of promising projects and companies.
The deal adds LNG-451, a highly selective brain-penetrant precision therapy targeting EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, to its pipeline.
Twist Bioscience snapped up in vivo antibody discovery company Abveris Inc. in a deal valued at up to $190 million. The acquisition is expected to bolster Twist’s biopharma antibody capabilities.
After indicating it might entertain a sale, Novartis may receive an offer from investment group EQT and the Struengmann family for its generic unit Sandoz.
Switzerland-based Vifor Pharma is acquiring Spain’s Sanifit Therapeutics and another Swiss company, Inositec.
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