Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

Carmot Therapeutics Inc. announced on December 4 that it entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Roche Holding AG at a purchase price of $2.7 billion upfront and the potential for $400 million in milestone payments.  Carmot Therapeutics is a biotechnology firm with injectable dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists and an oral GLP-1 drug in clinical development. The biotechnology company filed to go public in November 2023.  Roche Holding AG, commonly known as Roche, operates in the pharmaceuticals and diagnostics businesses worldwide. The company’s headquarters are located in Basel, Switzerland. According to its 2022 annual report, Roche’s net sales... Read More »
Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

AbbVie Acquires ImmunoGen for $10.1 Billion, Expanding Solid Tumor Portfolio

AbbVie Inc. and ImmunoGen, Inc. announced on November 30 a definitive agreement under which AbbVie will acquire ImmunoGen, a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on the development of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology to treat cancer.  Under the terms of the transaction, AbbVie will acquire all outstanding shares of ImmunoGen for $31.26 per share in cash. The transaction values ImmunoGen at a total equity value of approximately $10.1 billion.  ImmunoGen’s flagship cancer therapy ELAHERE® (mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx) is approved for the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. According to its 2022 financial report, ImmunoGen had total revenues of... Read More »
Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

Merck Buys Caraway Therapeutics

On November 21, Merck & Co., Inc. announced that it was acquiring Caraway Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The addition of Caraway Therapeutics will broaden Merck’s preclinical pipeline with a selection of programs aimed at Parkinson’s disease and beyond.  Merck, through a subsidiary, will buy Caraway for a total potential consideration of up to $610 million, including an undisclosed upfront payment as well as contingent milestone payments. The upfront payment will be expensed by Merck in the fourth quarter of 2023 and included in non-GAAP results.  Caraway Therapeutics’ approach leverages genetic data and unique biological... Read More »
Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

Bristol Myers Squibb Acquires Orum’s ORM-6151

On November 6, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Orum Therapeutics’ GSPT1 platform.   Under this transaction, BMS will pay an upfront payment of $100 million, and Orum Therapeutics is eligible to receive milestone payments for a total deal value of $180 million.  Orum Therapeutics’ GSPT1 platform uses unique Dual-Precision Targeted Protein Degradation (TPD) approach to build novel targeted protein degraders combined with the precise tumor cell delivery mechanisms of antibodies. This generates innovative, first-in-class, tumor-selective TPDs for the treatment of cancer.  BMS is a global biopharmaceutical company whose... Read More »
JLL Report: 2023 Life Sciences Industry and Real Estate Perspective 

JLL Report: 2023 Life Sciences Industry and Real Estate Perspective 

Recently, JLL released a report titled, “2023 Life Sciences Industry and Real Estate Perspective: Assessing the future landscape for biopharma, medtech and biomanufacturing” that explores the real estate landscape of technology sectors.   According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, JLL has advised on 24 transactions in 2023. Of those, there were 19 medical office buildings, two inpatient behavioral health hospitals, one ambulatory surgery center and one acute care facility. In total, the 50 facilities consist of more than 4.2 million square feet.  The report was broken down into multiple sections that looked at various elements of the market. Below, we’ve summarized each... Read More »
Roche Acquires Carmot Therapeutics for $2.7 Billion

Aileron Therapeutics Acquires Lung Therapeutics 

Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. has announced its acquisition of Lung Therapeutics. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Lung Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for underserved, life-threatening lung conditions. The Lung Therapeutics pipeline features leading programs LTI-01 and LTI-03, two candidates that indicate a novel way to treat lung diseases.  Aileron Therapeutics is a chemoprotection oncology company focused on the clinical development of its lead product candidate, ALRN-6924, to protect cancer patients against chemotherapy-induced toxicities.   Following the acquisition, Aileron entered into a definitive... Read More »