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Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 12, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 12, 2011.  We hope everyone had a restful labo(u)r day long weekend, both north and south of the border.  This week’s biotech deal review is a double feature owing to last week’s holiday.  There has been a lot of activity in the past two weeks, including the announcement of a friendly takeover bid of Afexa by Valeant (Afexa is already the target of a hostile bid by Paladin).  Read on to learn more.  Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: November 2, 2009

B&W_BigNickelIn this week’s Deal Review: SemBioSys hops on the SIFT Tax bandwagon; new deals from Microbix, OPMEDIC and GeneNews; and good updates from iCo Therapeutics, QLT, Noveko and Oncolytics. Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 25, 2009

B&W_BigNickelA very busy deal week coincided with a very busy work week (for those of us with day jobs), so allow me a particularly grateful thank-you to Jacob Cawker, who’s been an invaluable help with the Deal Review this and the last several weeks.  After the jump, licenses both inbound, outbound and just tied up (optioned); securities extended and accelerated (plus an actual common share offering, with the word “units” banished for one special week); and last but not least, a good volume of Canadian M&A (M&Eh?) from private to public to “just browsing.”  Read more of this post

Monday Deal Review: August 3, 2009

B&W_BigNickelHopefully, the Deal Review will be a longer list as the newly-launched Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund starts deploying some capital, but for this week, the Canadian deal front was pretty quiet.   A few developments, like the JLL-Patheon pathos and the milestone for Cardiome from Merck, were noted at the time in our Twitter stream @crossborderbio, and aside from that there are only a few deals, and a bit of bad news, to check out  after the jump…