Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 9, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 9, 2012.  Highlights from the previous two weeks include the announcement of a $13.25 million prospectus offering by Trimel Pharmaceuticals, and the announcement of a $200 million exchange offer by Angiotech on its Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2013.  Read on to learn more.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: April 30, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 30, 2012.  It was a slow week last week, with a couple of private placement closings, a business unit purchase and some commercial activity.  Read on to learn more. 

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: February 13, 2012

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for February 13, 2012.  There was some interesting biotech activity over the previous two weeks, including the closing by Oncolytics of its $18.5M equity financing and the withdrawal by Valeant of its offer to acquire ISTA Pharmaceuticals and its acquisition of a Brazilian food and sport supplement company.  Read on to learn more.  

Monday Biotech Deal Review: October 17, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for October 17, 2011.  This week’s deal review is a double feature following last Monday’s Canadian thanksgiving holiday.  Of note from the past two weeks were the acquisition of Labopharm by Paladin Labs, and its announcement that it is ceasing its hostile takeover pursuit of Afexa. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 26, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for September 26, 2011.  Noteworthy news from last week included a hint that Labopharm will enhance its offer for the shares of Afexa Life Sciences if its two shareholder rights plans are waived or cease-traded by the ASC.  As well, Medicago announced a significant private placement for proceeds of up to $24.5M, and Valeant has announced its intention to refinance its secured credit facilities with a new $1.7bn facility. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 22, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for August 22, 2011.  This week’s deal review is brought to you by Norton Rose OR LLP articling student Keldeagh Lindsay, who will be with us during his articles and assisting in the deal review.  Steven Zuccarelli has done a great job over the summer, and we wish him well in his final year at law school.  

There has been quite a lot of activity over the previous two weeks, with significant equity investment activity, debt financings (public and private), and mergers and acquisitions on the go.  Read on to learn more.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: August 8, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for August 8, 2011.  The previous two weeks witnessed a flurry of investment activity, including the filing of final prospectuses by each of Lorus Therapeutics and Atrium Innovations in respect of equity and debt offerings, respectively.  Read on to learn more. 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: July 11, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for July 11, 2011.  This week is a double feature, owing to last week’s break due to both Canada Day and Fourth of July holidays.  There was a lot of activity over the past two weeks in the biotech space.   Read on to catch up! 

Monday Biotech Deal Review: May 2, 2011

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for May 2, 2011.  This review is a double feature from last week’s Easter break.  Plenty happened in the interim, with Angiotech developments, private placements, licensing and other interesting corporate transactions and announcements.  Read on to learn more. 

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.  

Monday Biotech “Happy Holidays” Deal Review: December 27, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech “Happy Holidays” Deal Review!  For those who may have noticed, last week the Monday Biotech Deal Review took its own holiday, so this week’s digest contains biotech news spanning the past two weeks – to ensure you don’t miss a single drummer boy’s beat.  It has been a busy two weeks, with a notable $40M public offering by YM BioSciences of common shares that was announced, priced and closed, as well as an update by Angiotech with respect to its debt restructuring efforts.  There have also been some interesting strategic partnerships and licensing activity over the break.  Read on to learn more.    

Monday Biotech Deal Review: September 27, 2010

Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review. I am very excited to be writing for The Cross-Border Biotech Blog after working with Jeremy behind the scenes over the past three years. [ed. welcome (back) aboard!] It was a busy week for Canadian biotech companies, so let’s get started.

Monday Biotech Deal Review: December 14, 2009

In this week’s biotech deal review, some stimulus money finds its way to biotech, some M&A finds its way to shareholders’ votes, the NRC-BRI finds its way to two deals, and Patheon finds itself entering a new fiscal year a bit less burdened.  Even some securities may find their way into the market…