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10 February 2009
Current Partnering Newsletter

Dealmakers Newsletter Update: M&A special

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Anti-Infectives Partnering & Deal-Making Summit

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  • Editor's corner
  • New this month
  • Partnering roundup
  • In the news - February 2009
  • Networks update
  • Best practice articles
  • Forthcoming events
  • People on the move

Editor's corner

Welcome to the new-look Dealmakers newsletter from CurrentPartnering.

This month we are focussing on M&A deals to reflect the large amount of activity in the first weeks of 2009:

- several major M&A deals announced

- bigpharma CEOs making noise about M&A/partnering for 2009

We have updated our M&A report to reflect this latest activity, incorporating deals up to and including end 2008 - more details below. In addition, we have updated our co-promotion/co-marketing report. These join our ever expanding list of titles.

All for now

-- Steve Poile --


New this month

Revised and updated reports:

CurrentPartnering has revised and updated its most popular reports:

Merger and Acquisition Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics, 2nd edition

The Merger and Acquisition Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics, 2nd edition report provides comprehensive understanding and unprecedented access to the merger and acquisition (M&A) agreements entered into by the worlds leading biopharma companies

More details and order

Co-promotion and Co-marketing Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics, 2nd edition

The Co-promotion and Co-marketing Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics report provides comprehensive understanding and unprecedented access to the co-promotion and co-marketing partnering agreements entered into by the worlds leading healthcare companies. Revised and updated 2nd edition

More details and order

New report:

CurrentPartnering has launched its latest report:

Royalty Financing Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics

The Royalty Financing Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics report provides detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter royalty financing deals.

More details and order

New from Datamonitor:

Biotech Financing in the Credit Crisis: Strategies for a radically altered landscape

Since the financial meltdown, the relationship between Pharma and Biotech has been turned on its head. Previously, pharma companies had no choice but to license Biotech drugs at high prices in order to fill their sparse late stage pipelines

More details and order


Partnering roundup

A clutch of bigpharma CEOs have been making noises about the need for M&A and partnering in 2009 - here are just a few of them:

Of course the one confirmed M&A deal of 2009 made plenty of news:

Other stories emerging in recent weeks:


In the news

The early weeks of 2009 have been filled with M&A announcements:

  • Roche posts hostile bid for Genentech at $42 billion
  • Astellas proposes to acquire CV Therapeutics
  • Pfizer to buy Wyeth for $68 billion
  • Neose closes asset sale to Novo Nordisk and BioGeneriX
  • GlaxoSmithKline buys UCB Group emerging market activities for $667.2 million
  • Daiichi to bid for up to 20 percent of Ranbaxy's Zenotech
  • Lundbeck to buy OVATION Pharmaceuticals for up to $900 million

Other deals of note so far in 2009:

  • Cenix signs research deal with Boehringer Ingelheim for RNAi-based target discovery
  • Ipsen in co-promotion deal with Novartis for Exforge in France
  • EXACT in strategic transaction with Genzyme
  • ZymoGenetics secures worldwide rights to IL-21 from Novo Nordisk
  • GlaxoSmithKline pays up to $450 million for Idenix AIDS drug

Keep posted on the latest deals and alliances with CurrentPartnering's In the news feature


Best practice articles

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Through acquiring Wyeth, Pfizer will secure place as world’s biggest prescription pharma company to 2013

The merger/acquisition of Wyeth by Pfizer will create a prescription pharmaceutical company of unprecedented industry scale, enhancing Pfizer’s status as the sector’s leading player - more

Small, Fully Integrated, Operating Worldwide, An Oxymoron

Not if you are a urology specialist like Apogepha Arzneimittel GmbH! - more

BIO-Europe Spring Receives Major Endorsement from Italian Bio-Pharma Industry

EBD Group has announced that BIO-Europe Spring® 2009, March 16–18, 2009 at the Milano Convention Centre (MIC), Milan, Italy, has received the enthusiastic support of the Italian bio-pharma industry - more

Read all our partnering best practice articles.


Forthcoming events

Here are some of our suggested events for spring 2009:

EuroPLX 39 Lisbon

Cascais (near Lisbon), Portugal - March 2-3, 2009 - more details

6th Anti-Infectives Partnering & Deal Making-Summit

Boston, MA, USA - March 5-6, 2009 - more details

BioEurope Spring 2009

Milan, Italy - March 16-18, 2009 - more details

BIO-Windhover 2009

New York, USA - April 13-15, 2009 - more details

Pharmaceutical Strategic Outlook 2009

The Grand Hyatt New York City, USA - April 13-15, 2009 - more details

CHI Alliance Management Congress

Boston, MA, USA - April 22-23, 2009 - more details

BIO International Convention 2009

Atlanta, GA, USA, May 18-21, 2009 - more details

Euro-Biotech Forum 2009

Barcelona, Spain, June 30 to July 1, 2009 - more details

View our full events calendar


People on the move

The following people have been reported on the move during the early weeks of 2009:

Jim Rurka, Stephen Ciesinski, Peter Johnson, Al Rosenston, Vincent Mihalik ,  Gary Thompson to name just a few

read more about the latest people on the move

If you have news about a business development executive who is on the move - let us know


Partnering resources

Current Partnering maintains and regularly updates this list of useful resources for dealmakers across all industries.

The following topic areas are available - updated regularly:

  • Partnering organizations
  • Financing organizations
  • Online Partnering
  • Weblogs
  • Mentoring/Networking
  • Checklists
  • Quotes
  • Software Tools
  • Library
  • Journals
  • Careers
  • Training/education
  • Other useful links
     

Missing something? Let us know and we will include all appropriate resources.

 


About CurrentPartnering

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