Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Deal Statistics Quarterly, Q1 2008

Highlights from the Q1 2008 review of pharmaceutical and biotechnology dealmaking: there was a drought in biopharma financings--particularly from the public markets with only two completed IPOs--but VC funding was strong and made up 40% of the total. M&A activity was also down and saw only one multi-billion dollar deal. In alliances, oligonucleotides were the subject of seven biopharmaceutical collaborations and accounted for most of the quarter's dealmaking money.

In this issue, we present another installment of our quarterly review of pharmaceutical/biotechnology dealmaking—for the first quarter of 2008. Our data are derived from Windhover's Strategic Transactions Database.

Amanda Micklus and Maureen Riordan

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