Monday Deal Review: July 8, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 8, 2013! A busy two weeks has seen  lot of activity on the debt financing side of things. This includes Paladin and Bioniche’s complex debt financing and license arrangement.
Valeant’s ambitious financing push is also nering completion, with the public offering worth $2.3 billion closing and the nearly $3.3 billion in senior notes being priced.

Click through the break to see the full rundown of the past weeks’ stories!

Monday Deal Review: February 4, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 4, 2013! This week saw significant activity in the sector generally  On the M&A side, Valeant continued their ongoing acquisition strategy, buying the Russian Natur Product International, a primarily OTC private pharma company. Gilead’s acquisition of YM Biosciences took one step closer to completion as YM shareholders approved the statorily mandated vote to approve the plan of arrangement that will facilitate the arrangement. Court approval is now required as one of the final steps. Microbix was also involved in the week’s M&A activity, having sold its water for injections business to Irvine Scientific. The there was also significant investment activity this week, including Biosenta announcing a new private placement.

See detail on these and the the rest of the week’s major biotech stories by clicking through!

Monday Deal Review: November,5 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 5, 2012.  The past week saw a flurry of activity by Patheon, as it seeks to fund the acquisition of Banner Pharmacaps from Netherlands based VION.  Functional Therapeutics, on the other hand, has indicated that their previously announced spin-out agreement has been terminated.  Check out the link below for more detail on these stories, as well as the other major biotech stories of the past week.

Monday Deal Review: September 24, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 24, 2012. A busy week in investment stories includes Valeant’s launch of unsecured notes through its subsidiary VPI Escrow Corp, and MedX Health Corp.’s plans to offer 15,000,000 in common shares. Read on to learn more.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 19, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 19, 2011.  Of note in the past week was the extension of the hostile bid by Paladin Labs of Afexa Life Sciences to September 28^th, the application by Merus to graduate to the TSXV, and the filing by Allon Therapeutics of a short-form preliminary prospectus.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 4, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 4, 2011.  Valeant was a major headline last week with its hostile $5.7 billion leveraged-buyout offer for Cephalon, Inc., which some are suggesting may herald a new era of M&A activity in the biotech sector (you’ll recall that Valeant itself is the product of the recent merger with biotech heavyweight Biovail Corporation).   In addition, CCAA-protected Angiotech has filed a second amended and restated plan of compromise or arrangement and has made amendments to its support agreements, which plan is scheduled to be voted by creditors this week.  Last week continued the previous weeks’ pick-up in financing, with some newly announced and closed private placements.  And to top it off there were also a number of interesting commercial and licensing transactions.  Read on to learn more.  

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 21, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for March 21, 2011.  There was some interesting investment and commercial transactions announced and closed last week, including the $15M private placement announced by Novadaq, the $4M bond financing closed by SemBioSys and Pacgen’s announcement of a corporate makeover to accommodate its recent investments in the products of General Biologicals Corporation.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: January 24, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 24, 2010.  Despite a slow financing week, there were a few operational announcements as well as awards granted to Canadian biotech companies by the NIH and the UK’s Medical Research Council.  Read on to learn more.