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Monday Deal Review: November 26, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for November 26, 2012. This past week saw Valeant continue their aggressive stock repurchase program. Valeant plans to repurchase up to $1.5 billion worth of its own stock, senior notes or debt. Further, we saw Paladin expand its potential sales reach with the purchase of a controlling stake in Mexico-based Ativa Pharma.  Get the full breakdown of these and many more of the past week’s major biotech stories.   
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Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 14, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for March 14, 2011.  This week was a fairly slow week for Canadian biotech, but there were nevertheless a couple of interesting announcements.  Pharmagesic acquired over 90% of the restricted voting shares of WEX Pharmaceuticals marking the conclusion of its bid, and Theratechnologies has backed away from its previously announced U.S. IPO due to unacceptable pricing conditions.  Read on to learn more.  Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 28, 2011

Welcome to your Monday biotech deal review for February 28, 2011.  In addition to the usual reviews of biotech corporate activity, this week featured the announcement of Theratechnologies’ U.S. IPO, the closing of a $40M bought deal by Paladin Labs, Angiotech’s recapitalization amendment and the appointment of a Receiver for LAB Research.  Read on to learn more.   Read more of this post

Monday Biotech Deal Review: February 15, 2010

A busy Monday Deal Review is headlined by Labopharm and ProMetric on the securities front, MDS’ final divestiture on the M&Eh front and Biovail and Bioniche on the licensing front, and there’s lots more activity behind those for over $100 million of deals.  Check out all the details (and the witty headlines) after the jump…