| Company* (Country; Symbol) |
Company | Type/Product Area | Terms/Details (Date) |
| Acorda Therapeutics Inc.* |
Paul Royalty Fund | Paul Royalty purchased a portion of the future revenues of the approved spasticity products Zanaflex Capsules and Zanaflex tablets | Acorda received $15M and could receive two payments of $5M each if sales milestones are reached (1/19) |
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CombinatoRx Inc. (CRXX) |
Bio*One Capital (Singapore) | They established a new entity in Singapore, CombinatoRx Singapore Pte. Ltd. | The new entity will focus on use of high- throughput screening technology to discover and develop drugs for infectious diseases; terms were not disclosed (1/19) |
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CytoDyn Inc. (OTC BB:CYDY) |
UTEK Corp. | Deal under which CytoDyn will explore technology acquisition opportunities | UTEK is a technology transfer company focused on discoveries at universities and research laboratories; terms were not disclosed (4/11) |
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CytoDyn Inc. (OTC BB:CYDY) |
Timeway International Inc. | They entered a letter of intent to establish a joint venture in China | The venture would develop CytoDyn's Cytolin immune therapy for HIV in China; terms were not disclosed (2/14) |
|
IDEA AG* (Germany) |
Celtic Pharmaceutical Holdings LP (Bermuda) | Celtic acquired worldwide rights to IDEA's Transfersome delivery technology and all its products, except the lead candidate, IDEA-033 | Celtic subsidiary TDT will make an up- front payment to IDEA, as well as potential contingent payments and sales royalties; TDT committed to invest at least €15 in developing Transfersome-based products (2/23) |
| PharmaStem Therapeutics Inc.* | Lifebank Corp. (Canada) | Lifebank obtained a license to PharmaStem's patent portfolio | The deal will allow Lifebank to market in the U.S. its services for processing and storing umbilical cord stem cells (2/10) |
| Pharming Group NV (the Netherlands; Euronext:PHARM) | Paul Royalty Fund | Paul Royalty purchased a single-digit royalty interest in Pharming's rhC1INH and other products for 10 years | Pharming got $18.5M up front and a $3.5M equity investment; it could earn another $10M in milestone payments; rhC1INH is a recombinant human C1 inhibitor being developed for hereditary angioedema (2/3) |
| VistaGen Therapeutics Inc.* | Cato BioVentures | VistaGen got rights to all central nervous system product opportunities identified or acquired by Cato | VistaGen has the exclusive right of first negotiation to those products; Cato is the venture capital affiliate of the contract research organization Cato Research Ltd. (3/22) |
| Notes: | |||
| * Private companies are indicated with an asterisk. | |||
| Unless otherwise noted, the trading symbols listed for public companies are on the Nasdaq market. | |||
| OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. | |||
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