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Biobuck M&A in Full Gear
The 2012 M&A results are in and trends are mixed. Last year was a down year in terms of total acquisitions and total dollar value amounts vs 2011. What was not down however was the earnout structures embedded in these deals. More and more M&A transactions are looking like partnering deals structured with CVRs accounting for the bolus of the reported purchase price. Here is a look at therapeutic-focused acquisitions (valued at >$10M) over the Read More >
Beantown Biotech: ‘Dominant Life Sciences Cluster’
Massachusetts’ Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, Greg Bialecki, was quoted in today’s Boston Herald as saying: “We are the dominant life sciences cluster in the world,” Greg Bialecki said, “and I don’t think that was an accident.” Thanks to the Gov. Deval Patrick administration’s support for bioscience economic development, his state has continued to grow and add biotech industry jobs as an economic engine. Boston’s biopharm industry is comprised of more than 500 companies Read More >
Auto Injectors & Pen Injectors: Differentiating Products in Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific, with its mix of mature and emerging pharmaceutical markets and strong indigenous R&D capabilities, has no doubt already become a prominent driving force for the current and future global pharmaceutical industry with reports projecting the industry in this region to grow at a CAGR of 10 percent between 2012 and 2015. As the third largest pharmaceutical market following North America and Europe, Asia Pacific offers an immense potential for multinational pharmaceutical companies not Read More >
A Big Year for Novel Drugs Approvals
What was your top Biopharma highlight for 2012? If it wasn’t the stellar move in the AMEX Biotech Index (up 42%), or the reauthorization of PDUFA, then perhaps it was the decade high for innovative drugs approvals. We would need to go back to the 1990s to find a year with as many FDA approvals for novel drugs as we had in 2012. Adding to the positive trend in numbers, up 29% from the robust Read More >
California Biomedical Companies Cite Lack Of Funding As Major Concern
As I have mentioned in past blog posts, the U.S. bioscience industry has demonstrated stability through turbulent economic times. While not immune from the recession, this industry generally fared much better than the overall economy and has remained a net a job generator. In April of 2012, the White House released the National Bioeconomy Blueprint noting that bioscience industries are “a large and rapidly growing segment of the world economy that provides substantial public benefit.” Read More >
