Spotlight on Q1 Pharma M&A Merry-Go-Round

Q1 2019 saw a jump in merger and acquisition activity. Informa’s Biomedtracker has cast an analytical eye on three of the major deals, namely buys by Roche, Lilly and BMS.

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Much M&A movement in the pharma sector • Source: Shutterstock

It looks like biopharma industry merger and acquisition spending increased exponentially during the first quarter of 2019, with a $92bn total that outperformed Q4 2018 almost nine times over.

So noted the Strategic Transactions and Biomedtracker analysts at Informa who pointed out that unlike the previous quarter, which had...

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