M&A Deal Summary

Emergent BioSolutions Acquires Evolva Holding - EV-035

On December 17, 2014, Emergent BioSolutions acquired life science company Evolva Holding - EV-035 from Evolva

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Emergent BioSolutions’ 5th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Emergent BioSolutions’ 1st transaction in Switzerland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-12-17
Target Evolva Holding - EV-035
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Emergent BioSolutions
Sellers(s) Evolva
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Evolva Holding - EV-035

Switzerland
EV-035 is a series of novel small molecule broad spectrum antibiotics of the 4-oxoquinolizine class and targets bacterial type IIa topoisomerase.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Emergent BioSolutions

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Healthcare Services
Employees900
Revenue 1.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Emergent BioSolutions is a specialty biopharmaceutical company seeking to protect and enhance life by offering specialized products to healthcare providers and governments to address medical needs and emerging health threats. Emergent BioSolutions was founded in 1998 and is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 11
Sector: Life Science M&A 5 of 7
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 5 of 6
Country: Switzerland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-02-21 Cangene

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Cangene Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of specialty therapeutics, primarily targeting biodefense applications as well as infectious disease, hematology and transplantation.

Buy $222M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-05-28 Emergent BioSolutions - Plasma Collection Facility

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Emergent’s plasma collection center is an FDA and Health Canada licensed plasma collection facility. The plasma collection center is conveniently located in close proximity to the existing Emergent Winnipeg based cGMP manufacturing facility, which was recently announced as providing ProMetic with up to 250,000 liters of annual plasma processing capacity.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Evolva

Reinach, Switzerland

Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Life Science
Employees65
Revenue 9M CHF (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Evolva is a provider of biosynthetic and evolutionary technologies to create and optimize small molecule compounds and their production routes. Evolva Holding was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Reinach, Switzerland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Life Science M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Switzerland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-16 Allylix

San Diego, California, United States

Allylix, Inc. is a renewable chemicals company that develops terpene products and their derivatives for the flavor and fragrance, food ingredient, pharmaceutical, agricultural and biofuel markets.

Buy $46M