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Mergers & Acquisitions

Nov. 30, 2010

Drug-Making Partnerships Expected to Rise

In an environment where biotechnology firms need money and pharmaceutical companies need new drugs, partnerships between the two are bound to rise.


By Mandy Jackson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Pharmaceutical companies desperate to fill product pipelines as patents near expiration remain slow to wed biotechnology firms with promising new drug candidates, despite increasing competition from overseas.


Dealmaking that partners multi-billion-dollar collaborators with biotechs in need of funds is poised for a global comeback as drugmakers and foreign investors look for new relationships. Still,...

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