Monday Deal Review: April 8, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 8, 2013! After a hiatus last week due to the holiday, this week we have a lot of activity to cover. Valeant, in particular has been quite busy, being forced to up their bid for Obagi to $24.00 in response to interest from Germany’s Merz Pharma Group. In addition, Valeant’s latest bid is already 70 percent more than Obagi’s average 20-day stock price before the takeover fight began, the highest premium for a U.S. drug-industry deal in four years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Further, the Royal Bank fo Canada has said Valeant could be willing to pay as much as $28 a share to top any new offer from Merz, pushing the premium to as high as 99 percent. Valeant has also begun an unrelated note exchange, and has separately engaged a generic manufacturer with a license agreement after Mylan’s regulatory approval of their own anti-viral acyclovir-containing Zovirax® ointment equivalent.

In other news, Stem Cell Therepuetics has signed their merger agreement with Trillium, based on negotiations with Trillium’s debentureholders. There is much more to cover, so follow the break to get up to date on the latest and biggest biotech stories.

Monday Deal Review: March 4, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for March 4, 2013! The highlights from the past week include Oncolytics’ closing of their$32 million public offering, an update on Paladin’s ongoing share purchase program, and Atrium’s joint venture agreement with Fosum.  Get the details on these and the rest of the week’s major biotech news by clicking through.

Monday Deal Review: February 25, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 25, 2013!

This week saw significant activity on the investment front. Stem Cell Therepeutics and Sirona have each indicated an intention to raise funds through private placements, while Oncolytics Biotech is aggressively hoping to raise $32 million through a public offering. Sernova, Helix BioPharma and Amforfix have each closed their own private placements this week as well. On the M&A front, Cangene has closed their acquisition of the hemophilia compound IB1001, acquiring it through Inspiration Biopharmaceutical’s bankruptcy.

There’s more great stories this week, so click onward to see the whole week’s Deal Review.

Monday Deal Review: January 28, 2013

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for January 28, 2013!  The past week was relatively quiet, but highlights include Sernova’s $2 million private placement and Helix’s closing of their $8.5 million sale of the Rivex division.  Click below to get the whole week’s stories!

Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 12, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for Monday March 12, 2012.  Following a break, the Monday Biotech Deal Review is back with summaries of biotech transactions over the previous weeks.  Activity has been impressive over the past month, with pharma-giant Valeant Pharmaceuticals syndicating $600M in senior secured indebtedness under its existing senior credit facility to fund (among other things) future acquisitions, Alexion Pharmaceuticals completing its acquisition of Enobia Pharma for $610M and Futuremed Healthcare Products Corporation was acquired by Cardinal Health Inc.  Also of note was the recent $80.5M equity financing by YM BioSciences as well as the reverse takeover of The Atman Co. by Biotonix.  Read on to learn more.  

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.