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Cooley’s 2019 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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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’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

Cooley M&A

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. For example, the sale of Horizon Therapeutics to Amgen for approximately $28 billion was the third-largest all-cash transaction in the pharmaceutical sector in history.

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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.

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