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Royalty Financings and Similar Revenue Monetizations Surge in Difficult Life Sciences Fundraising Environment

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Many biopharmaceutical companies are facing challenges raising cash through traditional equity markets. While venture investment activity saw a slight increase in the first half of 2024 as compared to the equivalent period in...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Public Companies & the Law

Biotech Public Markets Finally Thawing(?): Two Massachusetts Biotechs file S-1s

In an encouraging sign that the equity capital markets may be improving for biotechnology companies, Bicara Therapeutics Inc. and Zenas Biopharma, Inc. filed S-1 registration statements yesterday, signaling their intention to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Event] Biotech Summit 2024 - October 9th - 10th, Boston, MA

Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Report on Hong Kong-Listed Biotech Companies - June 2024

点击此处阅读调查报告全文 Our fourth annual report on Hong Kong-listed biotech companies examines how the sector performed during the continuing challenging market conditions of the last full calendar year. Although the number of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Transaction Trends in Life Sciences

In November, we were delighted to once again host our annual European Health & Life Sciences Symposium in Paris. The event attracted a large number of healthcare professionals, investors and dealmakers to the Shangri-La Hotel...more

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Transatlantic M&A bull run set for comeback

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Encouraged by the relative strength of the dollar and improving financing conditions, US bidders are snapping up European assets - Transatlantic M&A was enjoying record-high activity before the war in Ukraine sparked...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2022 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report

In this issue of the 2022 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report, we present analysis related to 10 initial public offerings (IPOs), valued at over $75 million, completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Report on Hong Kong-Listed Biotech Companies - April 2023

点击此处阅读调查报告全文 Our third annual report on Hong Kong-listed biotech companies examines how the sector performed during the challenging conditions for capital markets globally over the past 12 months. Although aggregate listing...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Life Sciences Summit: Biotech IPO Market Shows Signs of Life

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As biotech markets begin to show signs of life, how should company leaders and investors prepare for what’s next?  Biotech executives, investment bankers and partners from Deloitte’s life sciences practice and Fenwick’s...more

Cooley LLP

Navigating the Downturn: Biotech Financing Trends

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Key takeaways - In 2022, markets have exhibited volatility and general weakness across the board, in part due to inflation and corresponding interest rate hikes. As a result, equity capital markets have had their slowest...more

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Sector overview: Strong M&A activity pervades nearly every sector

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Dealmakers in almost every industry had an outstandingly busy 2021. With just a few exceptions, the M&A boom swept across the US economy with deal values, in particular, up significantly on 2020 totals. Nevertheless,...more

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Biotech’s ESG Crossroads - Executives and Investors Deploy Varying Approaches Amid Calls for Reporting and Standardization

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In the last few years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics have become common in boardrooms, as investment funds with an ESG focus have raised billions and ESG’s non-financial metrics are increasingly factored...more

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M&A drives issuance in busy healthcare space

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Following a year of healthy activity, M&A deals in the pipeline are set to sustain leveraged finance issuance in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech sector in the months ahead - Lender appetite for exposure to the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Hong Kong’s Exchange Improves Its Allure for Chinese Issuers

Despite the impact of COVID-19 and other recent developments in Hong Kong, the city’s role as a center for China-based companies to raise capital became even more important in 2020. The momentum of several trends that began...more

Dechert LLP

UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter: All Eyes Were on Biotech in 2020 - Some Investor Observations

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It is now a year since the WHO declared an International Public Health Emergency after the first international case of a novel coronavirus infection was identified outside of China. We remain right in the middle of spiralling...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Rise of Equity Capital Markets in Greater China

1. Greater China’s Stock Markets Power Ahead - With governments looking to boost the growth of domestic equity markets, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has been trumpeting the benefits of its new regimes for emerging...more

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Healthcare sector under pressure but the diagnosis looks good

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COVID-19 has pushed healthcare systems around the world to the limit, but depending on the vertical, certain companies have been less affected than those in other sectors—and the availability of credit to battle the pandemic...more

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Skadden's 2019 Insights: New HKEx Rules Spur Bumper Year in Hong Kong Capital Markets, but Lasting Impact Remains Unclear

In April 2018, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s (HKEx) rule amendments permitting the listing of innovative, high-growth companies with dual-class share structures and pre-revenue biotech companies went into effect. The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Capital Markets Alert – Public Market Advocacy Groups Release Guidance

On April 27, 2018, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nasdaq, along with certain technology and biotechnology groups, released a policy paper titled “Expanding...more

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Hong Kong Exchange Publishes Draft Rules for Biotech Listings, Requests Comments

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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange recently published a Consultation Paper on a Listing Regime for Companies from Emerging and Innovative Sectors, and proposed to introduce a new chapter implementing the listing of...more

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TechConnect - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News - May 2016

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Letter from the Editors - Dear Readers, There is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes like this: When the wind changes direction, there are those that build walls and there are those that build windmills. In the...more

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