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Cooley’s 2023 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: Potent Mix of Creativity and Resilience Spurs Activity Heading Into 2024

Cooley M&A

While the year saw an overall decline in M&A activity (down 17% from 2022) , total pharmaceuticals and life sciences deal value in 2023 increased by approximately 50% compared to 2022. Why did life sciences outperform the market? The last quarter of the year ended with a surge of deal activity.

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Cooley’s 2020 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

The second half of the year witnessed a rebound spurred by several multibillion-dollar deals, including Gilead’s acquisition of Immunomedics for nearly $21 billion and AstraZeneca’s proposed acquisition of Alexion Pharmaceuticals for $39 billion. While deal value was down for the year, deal volume was relatively stable (down only 2.0%

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges Through Improved Due Diligence

M&A Leadership Council

We also recommend you do a dark web search for target company credentials, usernames, passwords, personal information, confidential documents, customer information, account numbers, and social security numbers, to name a few. We also believe it is vital to engage third parties to obtain a security risk assessment.

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Spot Cyber & IT Challenges

M&A Leadership Council

We also recommend you do a dark web search for target company credentials, usernames, passwords, personal information, confidential documents, customer information, account numbers, and social security numbers, to name a few. We also believe it is vital to engage third parties to obtain a security risk assessment.

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Cooley’s 2021 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

1] Major all-cash acquisitions have followed, such as Arena Pharmaceutical’s agreement to sell to Pfizer for $6.7 Midsize pharmaceutical buyers pursuing opportunistic acquisition strategies, with robust capital markets and high valuations having limited the pool of attractive assets available in recent years. time highs in 2021.

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The Full Guide to Healthcare Private Equity, from Careers to Contradictions

Mergers and Inquisitions

Areas like healthcare services and medical devices are fairly generalist and follow standard accounting and valuation. So, it’s not like real estate , oil & gas , or financial institutions , where you must learn a new set of jargon and accounting rules to have a good shot. For healthcare, most of the risks are regulatory.