Exhibit 1
Top Alliances In April 2012
Deals in Depth: April 2012
Forest paid Janssen $357 million to acquire US and Canadian IP related to Bystolic. Nestle bought Pfizer’s nutritional’s business and Hologic beefed up its women’s health portfolio through its $3.8 billion Gen-Probe takeover. Both biopharma and medical device financing were down in April compared with last month.
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