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News and Trends 7 Feb 2018

January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain

Biotech in Spain has kicked off 2018 setting a record for the number of acquisitions and fundraisings and their total value combined. Early in January, the Japanese big pharma Takeda announced its intention to acquire TiGenix for €520M. The cell therapy biotech was born in 2011 as a merger of Belgian TiGenix and Spanish Cellerix, […]

February 7, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 29 Jan 2018

Another One Gets Snapped Up: Ablynx has been Acquired by Sanofi for €3.9B

Sanofi will acquire Ablynx and get its hands on the biotech’s exciting Nanobody technology just months after the biotech joined Europe’s billion-euro biotech club. Despite rejecting the advances of Novo Nordisk earlier this month, a decision that led to a 60% jump in Ablynx’s stock, the biotech has voted unanimously in favor of being acquired Sanofi. Sanofi has […]

January 29, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

Interview 29 Jan 2018

Meet the CEO of the Other Big Biotech Acquisition Target in 2017

Christian Schetter’s company, Rigontec, was acquired by MSD last year for nearly half a billion euro. How did he and the company do it, with only one early-stage candidate? There were exactly two notable biotech acquisitions in Europe last year: Actelion and a smaller startup based in Munich called Rigontec, which had an RNA candidate […]

January 29, 2018 - 9 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

More News! 9 Jan 2018

Ablynx’ Stock Jumps by 60% After Rejecting Acquisition from Novo Nordisk

Ablynx has rejected a generous acquisition offer from Novo Nordisk. As a result, its stock has soared and is now worth more than what Novo offered in the first place. Early this morning, Novo Nordisk has made public an offer to acquire Ablynx, a Belgian biotech that has recently joined the European billion-euro biotech club. Novo […]

January 9, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 5 Jan 2018

Takeda Starts the Year Bidding for a Belgian Stem Cell Therapy Biotech

Takeda has offered to acquire TiGenix subject to the upcoming European approval of its lead stem cell therapy for Crohn’s disease, Cx601. Short of two years after partnering with TiGenix for the development of a stem cell therapy, Takeda has offered to buy the remaining shares of the company in Euronext Brussels and the Nasdaq […]

January 5, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 6 Sep 2017

MSD Offers €464M to Buy German Biotech Fighting Cancer with RNA

MSD is back in the RNA field with the acquisition of Rigontec, a German biotech harnessing RNA interference to make the immune system attack cancer cells. After selling selling Sirna Therapeutics three years ago for almost a tenth of the acquisition price, it seemed like MSD was out of the RNA field. However, the big […]

September 6, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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More News! 18 May 2017

Abcam Makes Final Payment in the Acquisition of an US Antibody Biotech

Abcam has paid US-based AxioMx a final €4.5M milestone based on performance, completing an acquisition that totals €36.4M. Giant antibody maker Abcam, founded by star biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Milner and based in Cambridge, has announced it made the last payment part of its acquisition deal with AxioMx. The deal was initiated in November 2015 with a […]

May 18, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 15 Feb 2017

Actelion’s key Drug linked to Deaths, prompting EMA Investigation

Johnson & Johnson is certainly counting on its recent acquisition of the European biotech success Actelion to upgrade its top line. Now Actelion’s key product, Uptravi, may be facing some safety issues. One of Actelion’s new products, Uptravi, was launched last January against pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and – with a €150000 ($160,000) price tag – it makes up a […]

February 15, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 26 Jan 2017

Europe’s Largest Biotech Actelion Seals the Deal with J&J for €28B

Actelion will be acquired by J&J for a whopping €27.9B, and its early R&D pipeline will be spun out into a new Switzerland-based outfit. The wait is over folks: Actelion, the largest biotech in Europe and one of the only 9 to make it to the billion-euro club in 2016, has just announced its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson for a […]

January 26, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 26 Dec 2016

The Largest Deals, Fundraising and Exits of 2016 in European Biotech

Curious about which technologies have attracted the most cash in biotech finance this year? Here’s a list of the most impressive cash movements of 2016 in Europe. Believe it or not, 2016 has been the worst year for biotech finance in a decade. The political scene has become unfavorable for British biotech after Brexit, and the uncertainty raised by […]

December 26, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 31 Oct 2016

Shooting for the Moon: German Biotech Acquired for a Record €1.3B

Ganymed Pharmaceuticals is the protagonist of Germany’s biggest biotech deal ever; Astellas Pharma has offered up to €1.3B to get hold of Ganymed’s first-in-class cancer antibody technology. Ganymed Pharmaceuticals develops first-in-class antibody therapies for cancer. Its technology seems to be so promising that the Japanese Astellas Pharma has decided to acquire it in what will be the […]

October 31, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 22 Aug 2016

UPDATE: Sanofi defeated in the Race to acquire Medivation

Even more Big Pharma join the fight to acquire the extremely desirable Medivation, a Biotech developing cancer treatments. Now MSD is joining the bandwagon. Things don’t look so good for Sanofi, which already got rebuffed twice. UPDATE (article originally published on 18/8/2016): Pfizer has struck a deal to acquire Medivation for $14Bn (€12.4Bn), according to the Financial Times. This was […]

August 22, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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Mergers & acquisitions

January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain

Another One Gets Snapped Up: Ablynx has been Acquired by Sanofi for €3.9B

Meet the CEO of the Other Big Biotech Acquisition Target in 2017

Ablynx’ Stock Jumps by 60% After Rejecting Acquisition from Novo Nordisk

Takeda Starts the Year Bidding for a Belgian Stem Cell Therapy Biotech

MSD Offers €464M to Buy German Biotech Fighting Cancer with RNA

Abcam Makes Final Payment in the Acquisition of an US Antibody Biotech

Actelion’s key Drug linked to Deaths, prompting EMA Investigation

Europe’s Largest Biotech Actelion Seals the Deal with J&J for €28B

The Largest Deals, Fundraising and Exits of 2016 in European Biotech

Shooting for the Moon: German Biotech Acquired for a Record €1.3B

UPDATE: Sanofi defeated in the Race to acquire Medivation

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