Almost a year since first filing its S-1 to return to public markets, Medline Inc. revealed the price range for the most awaited IPO of 2025. The massive medical device development and distribution company plans to offer 179 million shares at $26 to $30 per share, putting the total deal value at $5.37 billion at the upper end. At the top of the range, the IPO would rake in the superlatives: largest IPO of 2025, largest med-tech IPO ever and the largest venture capital exit in med tech. The offering range would value the company at up to $55 billion.
Teleflex Inc. reported plans to sell its Acute Care, Interventional Urology and OEM businesses to two buyers for $2.03 billion. Intersurgical Ltd. will acquire the Acute Care and Interventional Urology units for $530 million. Additionally, private equity firms Montagu and Kohlberg are buying its OEM contract manufacturing business for $1.5 billion.
GSK plc said in paperwork filed with the U.S. SEC that the potentially whopping deal inked in the summer of 2020 with Ideaya Biosciences Inc. has gone down the tubes. The two firms were collaborating on three of Ideaya’s synthetic lethality programs, MAT2A (methionine adenosyltransferase 2a), Pol Theta (polymerase theta) and Werner Helicase.
Mirum Pharmaceuticals Inc. is buying privately held Bluejay Therapeutics Inc., an $820 million purchase that will bring it Bluejay’s lead asset, brelovitug, for treating chronic hepatitis D virus.
GSK plc said in paperwork filed with the U.S. SEC that the potentially whopping deal inked in the summer of 2020 with Ideaya Biosciences Inc. has gone down the tubes.
Viatris Inc. is padding its coffers with $400 million in cash through the sale of its equity stake in Biocon Biologics Ltd., which also involves $415 million in newly issued equity shares, for a total deal value of $815 million.
Crescent Biopharma Inc. teamed with Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. to generate “parallel” data of its PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody, CR-001. The goal is to get 2027 readouts of the bispecific as a monotherapy and as a combination therapy with antibody-drug conjugates in both the U.S. and China.
Natera Inc. completed the acquisition of Foresight Diagnostics Inc. in a deal structured as $275 million up front plus contingent payments of up to $175 million based on achieving certain milestones for revenue and reimbursement coverage. The companies expect to close the transaction in the second quarter of 2026.
Neurimmune AG has expanded its transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) collaboration with Alexion, Astrazeneca Rare Disease by entering into an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement to develop NI-009, a fibril depleter for light chain (AL) amyloidosis.
Q32 Bio Inc. handed off rights to phase II-stage complement inhibitor ADX-097 in a deal with Akebia Therapeutics Inc. that helps the former extend its cash runway to focus on lead candidate bempikibart in alopecia areata and bolsters the latter’s efforts to build a rare kidney disease pipeline.
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