New Industry Dynamics to Help Secure the Right Deal

Oxford, UK- June 27 2011: PharmaDeals®, the publishing division of PharmaVentures, announced today the launch of PharmaDeals v4 Enterprise Edition, a new integrated resource with a comprehensive, searchable and interactive library of reports, articles, agreements, video, graphs and deal data. As well as access to new online content, the resource also provides users with a range of applications and tools for tracking, alerting and analysing information.

Fintan Walton, Chief Executive of PharmaVentures, the experts in deals and alliances, says, “Our research shows that pharma and biotech deal makers have to be increasingly more creative to secure the deals that count. Understanding the nature and extent of this new generation of deals is critical, as is a firm grasp of the established benchmarks and methodologies for deal making.” Dr Walton continues, “Against this background, it’s perhaps not surprising that our customers have expressed a need for a single point of access to our extensive range of deal making resources – whether it’s a ‘how to’ guide, our expert analysis of trends, or direct access to the most comprehensive bank of industry data and agreements. But they want speed and ease of access too, irrespective of the type or source of information.”

Anne Vindenes Allen, PharmaDeals’ Executive Director, adds, “Our range of customers need to access and use our data and expertise in different ways, and this is addressed withPharmaDeals v4 Enterprise Edition. Market research, marketing and brand managers use the product to track competitors’ deal making activities and stay apprised of the deal making arena. Business intelligence, business development, strategic planning and licensing executives use this vital information to empower their business decisions and benchmark deals. Furthermore, information about industry deals is valuable to R&D, discovery, financial institutions, and consultants. Through creating a fully online resource, and making it easier for our customers to see the full context through intelligent linking and classification, we have just made it possible for them to find all the key deal making information they need in one place”. PharmaDeals are currently taking applications for company-wide demonstrations and trials to the new resource.

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PharmaVentures Corporate Advisory appoints Ping Shek as Senior Director in Transactions

PharmaVentures today announced the appointment of Ping Shek as Senior Director in the Transactions division of Corporate Advisory working on a number of key M&A and divestment mandates in the healthcare business sector.

Fintan Walton, PhD, PharmaVentures’ Chief Executive Office says “We are delighted to welcome Ping to PharmaVentures. Our Transactions division is currently working with a number of key companies in the life sciences sector, providing a comprehensive M&A and asset divestment service and has recently celebrated successes for a number of clients including UCB, Sanofi, Helsinn and Dow Chemical. Our client portfolio will benefit from this key appointment to the team.”

Kevin Bottomley, Head of Transactions says “Ping brings substantial healthcare and investment banking experience into PharmaVentures and has a track record of mandate origination and transaction execution from his previous posts. His broad experience and knowledge will be invaluable to our clients looking to optimise business assets, engaging acquirers and ensuring rapid closure of deals at the best value.”

Ping is a physics graduate from Oxford and has an MBA (with a distinction in Advanced Corporate Finance) from the London Business School. He has previously worked with investment bankers Morgan Stanley International, Lazard Brothers, JP Morgan, Monitor Group and the Anglo Chinese Group.

For further information

Fintan Walton, CEO

+44 1865 332733

odette.hodder@pharmaventures.com

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PharmaDeals Research Reveals Early Signs of Recovery in Pharma Industry Deal Making

Oxford, UK, 22nd February 2011: PharmaDeals® research has revealed that the early stages of recovery are now evident within pharmaceutical deal making activity. The overall number of deals in 2010 grew relative to 2009, and whilst collaborative R&D deals continue to decline in numbers and value, licensing activity is on the increase.

Fintan Walton, PhD, Chief Executive of PharmaVentures says, “The current deal making landscape in the life science industry is fascinating, and reflects the forces for change operating worldwide. For example, research based on our PharmaDeals database shows that deal structures for M&A transactions are becoming more and more complex, yet values are declining. In order to benefit, small and large companies alike will require increasing levels of sophistication in terms of their deal-making ability.” The results were recently presented by Dr Walton at the Sachs 4th Annual European Life Sciences CEO Forum for Partnering & Investing held in Zurich, and through analysis published by the journal PharmaDeals Review.

Anne Vindenes Allen, Executive Director for PharmaDeals, explains, “It is vital for industry deal makers to keep pace with these developments and use best available business intelligence. Analysis of our PharmaDeals data shows the variation in values within different deals types, as well as within development stages and therapy areas. We always go the extra mile to source and classify critical information to help our clients distil critical intelligence.”

Fintan Walton concludes, “Our consultants help bring companies together to further their mutual aims – it’s all about teasing out the win-win scenarios. Without an appreciation for what others are doing in the industry, that is pretty much an impossible task”.

Secure a copy of the PharmaDeals Review article, entitled

Deal Making in 2010‘ here:pharmadeals.net/download_deal_making_2010

Journal available at pharmadealsreview.com

Information about PharmaDeals v4 Agreements is available atpharmadeals.net/agreements or contact us today.

For further information:

Anne Vindenes Allen

Executive Director, PharmaDeals

+44 (0) 1865 332700

anne.allen@pharmaventures.com

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As Pharmaceutical Deal Making Becomes More Competitive, PharmaDeals® Resource Expands its Deal Coverage

Oxford, UK, August 19 2010: PharmaVentures, the company behind the PharmaDeals® range of business information, announced today the expansion of its PharmaDeals Agreements coverage that includes exclusive interviews with deal makers around the world. The announcement follows major enhancement of its dedicated, market leading platform delivering deal data and information to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector.

The scope of PharmaDeals Agreements database has been expanded to include categories of deals that have medical and therapeutic applications in cosmetics, internet and e-commerce, nutritional supplements, packaging, wound care, bioterrorism, as well as deeper classifications within drug delivery technologies.

Fintan Walton, PhD, Chief Executive of PharmaVentures says, “We are very excited about our latest version of PharmaDeals. One of the big issues that face those in researching and analysing deals is the lack of scope within databases they use which is a result of the huge changes taking place in the world of deal making. More companies are doing specialist deals, for example, with orphan drugs, and the world is changing as new technologies, mechanisms of action and even new therapy areas emerge. Frankly no one else has tried to come up with solutions to these changes.”

New content is also being sourced related to deal making by Clinical Research and Contract Manufacturing Organizations. The development to the database augments recent improvements to the classifications and user interface.

As deal making is a people business subscribers can for the first time access exclusive television interviews with the key deal makers in the major pharmaceutical companies as well as key influencers at the corporate level such as CEOs and Board Members of corporations.

Dr Walton continues, “A key priority for us is to better serve our customers with information about deals from rapidly developing markets, and we have done this by considerably increasing our sources, especially in India, China, and generally within South Asia and South America. These developments to our content are additional key milestones for us, and, in the very near future, we shall be bringing news of further offerings to help our clients’ ability to win the best deals for them.”

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Biopharma Companies Gain Financially Through Unique Targeted Access to the Financial Community

OXFORD, UK, June 7, 2010 /PRNewswire: PharmaTelevision® today announced that it is offering pharma and biotech companies the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the financial sector. 

To celebrate their new relationship with Reuters Insider, PharmaTelevision® is offering companies an opportunity to film, host and promote their financial or corporate messages between 21-25 June 2010.

Dr Fintan Walton, Chairman of PharmaTelevision, said “When you are looking to raise funding, communication is the key to winning the deal and building your business. Our clients benefit from our targeted approach, identifying the key decision makers from a resource of over 500,000 prospects through Reuters Insider. PharmaTelevision’s Financial Report helps companies communicate their financial or corporate message – with impact.” 

Anne Vindenes Allen, Managing Director of PharmaTelevision, said “Our team of television professionals help companies create top quality productions that combine video, text and advanced web features. Add to this PharmaTelevision’s power of distribution to top decision makers, and our ability to syndicate videos to other target audiences, and you have a formulae to help our industry progress. That’s why more companies are now choosing PharmaTelevision to convey their message.”

Reuters Insider is a powerful, internet-based delivery platform that includes an innovative set of tools that are readily available from any desktop computer or even on your mobile devices. Reuters Insider also enables you to easily create and distribute your own proprietary content using little more than a standard webcam to build your brand within the global financial community in ways never before possible.

PharmaTelevision is produced by professional television industry experts using professional studios worldwide as well as its own studios in the UK.. PharmaTelevision produces Open Content as well as subscription based Premium Content.

PharmaTelevision Open Content includes the Regional Report– a programme that focuses on the key locations for pharmaceutical and biotech investment, the Financial Report – a programme focused on companies and their performance and the Business Network – a series of interviews and profiles of some of the leading companies in biotech.

PharmaTelevision Premium Content includesPharmaTelevision News – a daily news and analysis programme, PharmaTelevision News Review – a programme featuring interviews, panel discussions and analysis with leading experts and leaders in our industry and the Business Report – a programme that analyses key business and market trends in our industry.

PharmaTelevision® is a registered Trade Mark of PharmaVentures Ltd.

For further information on PharmaTelevision’s Financial Report, or to book, contact: 

Eva Martin, Account Manager, PharmaVentures Ltd. 

+44(0)1865 332 700

enquiries@pharmatelevision.com 

For more information on PharmaTelevision, contact:

Doug Cookson, Commercial Director, PharmaVentures Ltd.

+44 (0)1865 332 731. 

doug.cookson@pharmaventures.com

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