Flu Vaccines, Increased Focus On Preventive Medicine Pique J&J's Interest In Crucell
Executive Summary
If its $2.4 billion bid to buy Crucell N.V. succeeds, Johnson & Johnson will have managed to take a quick leap forward in the vaccines space, going overnight from a non-player to the number six company in the space, behind market leaders GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and Novartis.
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Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Deal Statistics Quarterly, Q3 2010
Biopharma financings slumped in the third quarter of 2010 - the $1.69 billion raised in Q3 was about half of Q2's $3.37 billion. Most of the third quarter money came from VC rounds. Two-thirds of the M&A total came from J&J's $2.2 billion purchase of the 82.1% of Crucell that it didn't already own. And following a long stretch in which earlier-stage assets were grabbing the largest deal values, Q3's biopharma alliances proved the contrary - the majority of the biggest moneymakers were for Phase II and higher therapeutics.