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Pfizer: We’re So Over Allergan

Within hours after Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN) called off their $160 billion merger on April 26, 2016, Allergan announced a new acquisition. It’s taken a few weeks, but Pfizer is finally moving on. Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANAC) is the target, based in Palo Alto, California. Anacor Pharmaceuticals focuses on discovering, developing and commercializing novel small-molecule therapeutics derived from its boron chemistry platform. Its flagship asset is crisaborole, a differentiated non-steroidal toipcal PDE4 inhibitor with anti-inflammatory properties. Its currently under review by the FDA for the treatment of mild-to-moderate atopic dermatitis, also... Read More »

Mylan Adds Topical Pharmaceuticals Business

Mylan NV (NASDAQ: MYL) still has money to spend, following its $9.9 billion deal for Swedish drug maker Meda AB in February. On Friday, May 13, RoundTable Healthcare Partners announced that its portfolio company, Renaissance Acquisition Holdings, LLC, had agreed to sell its non-sterile topical drug business to Mylan for $950 million, plus additional contingent payments of up to $50 million. The topical division is a specialty pharmaceutical business focused on manufacturing, developing, sales and marketing of branded and generic drug products. The acquisition brings a complementary portfolio of approximately 25 branded and generic topical products, an active pipeline of approximately 25... Read More »

Biotechnology Deals in Q1 2016

Biotechnology deal activity picked up in the first quarter of 2016, rising 43% versus the previous quarter, to 30 deals. The total is 24% of the 127 deals announced in the previous 12 months. Biotechnology targets range from large, publicly traded companies to small startups, or established lines of products to licenses or rights to technologies and drugs in various phases of development. Research collaborations are included, when an acquirer pays an upfront fee for the rights to a promising compound, and picks up the R&D, regulatory and commercialization costs. In the first quarter, 19 of the 30 transactions involved the purchase of an entire company, while seven involved the rights... Read More »

Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 05.13.16

AcquirerTargetPrice Mylan N.V. Renaissance's generics business$950 million Daiichi SankyoLicense to Heartcel™ in Japan$14.28 million Incyte CorporationAriad's European operations$140 million Chiesi Farmaceutici SpACardiovascular drug line$260 million Vifor Frensius Medical Care Renal Pharma Ltd.Rights to RAYALDEE®$50... Read More »

Behavioral Health Care M&A in Q1:16

The HealthCare M&A Report First Quarter 2016 is about to be published, and here is a look at the Behavioral Health Care sector. As you can see, deal activity decreased in the first quarter, down 38% to eight transactions. The quarter’s total represented 21% of the 39 transactions announced in the past 12 months and virtually no increase over the previous quarter. Behavioral health care facilities and programs are largely community-based, and transactions are often conducted between private parties and thus, not reported publicly. Still, this category is seeing some consolidation from private equity firms as well as strategic buyers, who are building platforms across state and national... Read More »

Pharma M&A Is all about Options

The days of mega-mergers in the pharmaceutical sector aren’t necessarily over, but those deals will be fewer and farther between, going forward. Nearly 60 deals have been announced in 2016 through the middle of May, and just 17 have an entire company as the target. The largest, so far, is Shire’s (NASDAQ: SHPG) $32 billion takeover of Baxalta (NYSE: BXLT), announced in January. The rest are either collaborations on product candidates, rights or license deals for marketed products or clinical-stage candidates, even the rights to royalties. That’s Royalty Pharma’s $1.1 billion deal for the royalty interest in Xtandi, which is being sold by a co-owner, UCLA, where... Read More »

Reporter’s Notebook: PE Healthcare Investor Forum 2016

The first-ever Private Equity Healthcare Investor Forum took place in New York City on April 27, 2016 at the Westin Times Square. We were invited to attend by the sponsor, Private Equity International. The conference was originally planned to span two days, but was cut down to a single, panel-crammed event a few weeks before. Attendance was spotty, and at times it seemed the bulk of the audience were all speakers. Don’t get us wrong, we’d go again, if invited. The most interesting panel, in our opinion, was moderated by Richard Zall, partner and chair of Proskauer’s Health Care Department. Titled “When healthcare meets private equity: analyzing investor trends and... Read More »

Four More Behavioral Health Deals in May

Mergers and acquisitions in the behavioral health care sector have picked up significantly in April and May. Although only eight deals were announced in the first quarter of 2016, nine more have come along in just the past six weeks. Four have been announced in the first 10 days of May, beginning with Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC) and its acquisition of TrustPoint Hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee from privately-held Polaris Hospital Company. TrustPoint is a 129-bed facility, and since the deal closed on May 1, Acadia has filed a certificate of need for another 100 beds. Moving north to Buffalo, New York, two not-for-profits merged to become one of the largest community-based... Read More »

Quintiles/IMS Merger Keeps Lab Sector Humming

Laboratories are big business, and they’re trading for very strong multiples these days. This year in particular, we’ve seen a lot of global M&A action around contract research organizations (CROs) and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs). The most recent announcement was the all-stock merger of equals between Quintiles (NYSE: Q) and IMS Health Holdings (NYSE: IMS). First, the details. IMS Health shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock. Upon completion, IMS shareholders will own approximately 51.4% of the shares of the combined company on a fully diluted... Read More »