News GBL joins CVC in €10.7bn takeover bid for Recordati A consortium of investors has made a €10.7bn offer to take Italian pharma Recordati private, but some analysts are sceptical the deal will go through.
News Blackstone closes record $6.3bn life sciences fund Blackstone has closed its latest fund – the $6.3bn BXLS VI – saying it is the largest ever private fund for the life sciences sector.
News Oxford BioMedica confirms private equity takeover talks Oxford BioMedica confirmed this morning that it has received an unsolicited approach from private equity group EQT about a possible takeover.
News Bain buys Japanese pharma Mitsubishi Tanabe for $3.4bn Bain Capital has agreed to buy Mitsubishi Tanabe for around $3.4 bn, setting up one of the largest private equity buyouts in Japan's health sector.
News Bausch + Lomb dips on rumour of failing takeover talks Private equity group Blackstone is reported to be thinking of pulling out of a consortium to buy ophthalmology specialist Bausch + Lomb.
News Grifols slides as Brookfield pulls out of takeover talks Brookfield has said it is withdrawing from negotiations to take over Grifols, sparking a slump in the Spanish pharma group's shares
News Lundbeck preps for key bexicaserin data around year-end Lundbeck has completed patient randomisation in a pivotal trial of epilepsy candidate bexicaserin, one of its major growth hopes.
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