PharmaVentures Appoints a New Vice President – Samara Ferguson to Lead the Pricing & Market Access Team

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London, UK, 3rd July 2025: PharmaVentures is pleased to announce the appointment of Samara Ferguson as Vice President to lead its Pricing and Market Access division, supporting companies in their sell-side, buy-side, and licensing due diligence and deal-making.

For over 20 years, Samara has held multiple roles in the pharmaceutical industry, giving her a unique insight and experience in market access, health economics and outcomes research. At GSK, Amgen, and UCB, Samara worked across multiple product portfolios, supporting value demonstration of assets in clinical development through to post-launch. 

Samara’s consultancy experience also brings many years of insight across numerous therapy areas, where she rigorously pressure-tested market access and price potential, developed market access strategies, evidence generation plans, and bespoke real-world studies. 

Samara has also supported rapid assessments of in-licensing opportunities to identify key areas of risk and opportunities and inform investment decision-making.

Dr Fintan Walton, Founder and CEO of PharmaVentures, said:” We are delighted to welcome Samara to the PharmaVentures team. Her 20+ extensive years of experience working for major pharma and advising numerous small to mid-sized pharma will be an enormous benefit to our clients who need high-quality pricing and market access support in due diligence and negotiating the right terms for their deals.”

Samara holds a MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy from the University of Birmingham.

 

For further information, please contact:

Rachel Hampstead

rachelh@pharmaventures.com

 

 

 

About PharmaVentures

PharmaVentures is a premier transaction advisory firm and a leading international company in partnering, M&A deals and strategic alliances. For over 30 years, PharmaVentures has acted as advisor on over 1000 deal related projects covering licensing, mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and joint venture activities for companies world-wide. 

PharmaVentures’ deep bank of specialist experience, deal analytics and network of contacts among innovators and large pharma makes it uniquely placed to support business in all aspects of deal making and strategic planning. PharmaVentures is well known for its deep insight into deal structures and its success for generating partnering interest. 

PharmaVentures’ services include:

 

NOTE: This Press release is issued by PharmaVentures Limited, whose wholly owned subsidiary PharmaVentures Capital Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (741356). This communication is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or engage in any investment products, securities or services and should not be deemed as such.

For more details, visit https://www.pharmaventures.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PharmaVentures acts as exclusive M&A advisor to the PE firm capiton AG on the successful sale of MiP Pharma’s Sterile Production Facility to FAMAR Group

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London, UK, 5th June 2025: PharmaVentures is pleased to announce it recently acted as exclusive M&A advisor to capiton AG on the sale of MiP’s sterile production site in Homburg /Saar, Germany to FAMAR, a globally operating pharmaceutical and cosmetic CDMO.

Under capiton’s ownership, the MiP manufacturing facility has been transformed into a state-of-the-art world class manufacturing facility. FAMAR intend to build on this further to strengthen its supply chain to meet the growing demand for its pharmaceutical services.

The pharmaceutical services sector that includes CROs, CDMOs and other specialist consultancies continues to evolve and transactions such as this are a key driver for the growth of Pharmaceutical Services companies.

“We are pleased to have assisted capiton AG in the divestment of MiP’s manufacturing site in Homburg to MidEuropa-backed FAMAR. This transaction forms a successful part of MiPs strategic plan and gives FAMAR access to a world-class manufacturing facility with space for growth.” said Soren Demin, Head of M&A at PharmaVentures.

“This transaction illustrates the important role of specialist advisors such as PharmaVentures play in the execution of these transformative deals,” said Dr Fintan Walton, CEO and Founder of PharmaVentures. “Our decades of experience in M&A, together with our detailed knowledge of the pharmaceutical services industry enabled us to deliver the optimal deal for our client.”

For further information, please contact:

Adrian Dawkes – Managing Director

adrian@pharmaventures.com

About capiton AG

capiton is an independent, owner-managed private equity firm with a total fund volume of €1.6 billion. The current investment portfolio of capiton AG includes 18 medium-sized companies. As an equity partner, capiton supports management buy-outs and growth financing for established medium-sized businesses.

About PharmaVentures

PharmaVentures is a premier transaction advisory firm and a leading international company in partnering, M&A deals and strategic alliances.

For over 30 years, PharmaVentures has acted as advisor on over 1000 deal related projects covering licensing, mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and joint venture activities for companies worldwide.

PharmaVentures’ deep bank of specialist experience, deal analytics and network of contacts among innovators and large pharma makes it uniquely placed to support business in all aspects of deal making and strategic planning.

PharmaVentures is well known for its deep insight into deal structures and its success for generating partnering interest.

PharmaVentures’ services include:

NOTE: This Press release is issued by PharmaVentures Limited, whose wholly owned subsidiary PharmaVentures Capital Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (741356). This communication is for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or engage in any investment products, securities or services and should not be deemed as such.

For more details, visit https://www.pharmaventures.com