Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2 2019 was a banner year for billion-dollar life sciences M&A transactions.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

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.

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