2017 Life Science M&A Transactions

Leading Pharma is a privately-owned generic pharmaceutical company that purchases, licenses, develops, manufactures, and distributes high-quality, safe and effective products to drugstore chains, distributors, wholesalers, mass merchandisers, government agencies and managed care accounts in the U.S. Leading Pharma was founded in 2014 and is based in Fairfield, New Jersey.

Signet Healthcare Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
New York,
www.signethealthcarepartners.com

Crestline Investors
Investor
Asset Manager
Fort Worth, Texas
www.crestlineinvestors.com

Aisei Pharmacy is a pharmacy services provider. Aisei Pharmacy is a wholesaler of generic drugs. Aisei Pharmacy was founded in 1984 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

J-STAR Co.
Investor
Asset Manager
Tokyo, Japan
www.j-star.co.jp

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of highly specialized medicines. Sucampo has a late-stage pipeline of product candidates in clinical development for orphan disease areas, including VTS-270, a mixture of 2-hydroxypropyl-B-cyclodextrins with a specific compositional fingerprint that has been granted orphan designation in the U.S. and Europe and is in a pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trial for the treatment of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C, a rare progressive genetic disorder. VTS-270 has also been granted breakthrough therapy designation in the U.S. Sucampo has an exclusive option for the North American rights to CPP-1X/sulindac, which is in Phase 3 development for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis and has been granted orphan drug designation in the U.S. The company has two marketed products – AMITIZA and RESCULA.

Mallinckrodt
Company
Life Science
Dublin, United Kingdom
www.mallinckrodt.com
Advisors: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , Deutsche Bank Corporate & Investment Banking

Discuva Ltd. is a drug discovery company. Discuva was founded in 2007 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Summit Therapeutics
Company
Life Science
Miami, Florida
www.smmttx.com

Alter Pharma distributes EU-sourced pharmaceutical products to wholesalers pharmacies and hospitals. It also develops and reformulates generic pharmaceuticals using GMP approved third-party manufacturers, and sells them internationally through partnerships. Alter Pharma is based in Anderlecht, Belgium.

Riverside
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.riversidecompany.com
Advisors: A&O Shearman , Ernst & Young Capital Advisors

BioCare Copenhagen A/S is a provider of probiotics and specialized in microbial actives with proven health benefits, targeting gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic disorders, infections, and immunity. BioCare Copenhagen A/S was established in 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

DSM-Firmenich
Company
Chemicals
Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
www.dsm-firmenich.com

Ignyta, Inc. is a trailblazing biotechnology company catalyzing personalized medicine with integrated Rx/Dx solutions for cancer and immunology. Ignyta was founded in 2011 and is based in San Diego, California.

Roche
Company
Life Science
Basel, Switzerland
www.roche.com
Advisors: Sidley , Citi

Precision Medicine Group is a specialized services company supporting next-generation approaches to drug development and commercialization. Precision provides an integrated infrastructure that supports pharmaceutical and life sciences companies as they develop new products in the age of precision medicine. Precision Medicine Group was founded in 2012 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Berkshire Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Boston, Massachusetts
www.berkshirepartners.com

TPG
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Fort Worth, Texas
www.tpg.com

The Blackstone Group
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.blackstone.com
Advisors: Sullivan & Cromwell , BofA Securities , Barclays Investment Bank , Morgan Stanley

J.H. Whitney Capital Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New Canaan, Connecticut
www.whitney.com

Pasteur Group is a clinical diagnostics testing provider. Pasteur Group was established in 1966 and is based in Andorra.

Eurofins Scientific
Company
Life Science
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
www.eurofins.com

Bio Palette is a operator of a platform intended to offer gene-editing techniques. Bio Palette plans to develop business in three fields, classified based on the type of cells targeted for genome editing. Bio Palette was founded in 2017 and is based in Kobe, Japan.

Eight Roads
Investor
Private Equity Firm
London, United Kingdom
www.eightroads.com

Alizé Pharma SAS is a designer and developer of livoletide. Alizé Pharma was founded in 2007 and is based in Ecully, France.

Millendo Therapeutics
Company
Life Science
Ann Arbor, Michigan
www.millendo.com

Profusio GesundHeits GmbH Germany is the second largest cytostatics compounder in Germany with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Leipzig, Haan and Munich.

Zytoservice
Company
Life Science
Hamburg, Germany
www.zytoservice.de

GHD GesundHeits
Company
Medical Products
Ahrensburg, Germany
www.gesundheitsgmbh.de

BIOHM Health is a microbiome company guided by the cutting edge research of Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum after his breakthrough discovery that bad bacteria and bad fungus work together to create digestive imbalance. Dr. Ghannoum realized that today's probiotics and microbiome tests had not been engineered to address the gut's total microbiome of bacteria and fungi, entirely ignoring the role fungi plays in digestive health. BIOHM Health was founded in 2016 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Vanterra Capital
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.vanterra.com

Wolfe Laboratories, Inc. is a premier contract research organization that provides integrated drug development solutions to the biopharmaceutical industry. Wolfe Laboratories is an essential element of the drug development ecosystem, recognized by global and virtual biopharmaceutical companies as a science-driven organization whose mission is to provide outstanding discovery and development services tailored to its clients’ needs for rational formulation development.

Pace
Company
Test/Measurement Equipment
Minneapolis, Minnesota
www.pacelabs.com

RondinX Ltd. is a drug discovery platform that develops solutions in the microbiome therapeutic and companion diagnostic spaces. RondinX Ltd. was established in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

BiomX
Company
Life Science
Ness Ziona, Israel
www.biomx.com

Base Pair Biotechnologies is a provider of highly customized aptamer discovery and development services. Base Pair Biotechnologies was founded in 2012 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Eventi Capital Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Toronto, Ontario
www.eventi.com