The Year’s Two Largest Conjugate Deals Were Not ADCs, and Not Cancer Drugs
Buyers stopped paying for conjugate drugs and started paying for conjugate chemistry. The year’s two biggest cheques bought neither an ADC nor a cancer drug.
M&A
Teledyne Put Its Antitrust Argument in the Press Release, Product by Product
Mehrabian spent a paragraph itemising exactly how the two businesses do not overlap. Executives do that when a competition authority is reading.
Jazz Paid $820 Million Upfront for a Phase 1b/2a Because the FDA Pathway Came With It
QuickDeal read/Rare Diseases/Small Molecule Jazz Paid $820 Million Upfront for a Phase 1b/2a Because the FDA Pathway Came With It Athithi Verma· 11 August 2026· 3 min read· Synopulse Jazz Pharmaceuticals will acquire privately held Actio Biosciences for $820 million upfront plus up to $500 million in approval and sales milestones, a maximum of $1.32 … Read more
Argenx’s $2.2 Billion Bought a Phase 1b With Ten Patients on Placebo
FB102’s entire human efficacy dataset in vitiligo is 42 patients, ten of them on placebo. argenx paid $2.2 billion in cash, with no milestones.
Medicover Calls India a Distraction. KKR Just Paid 5.4x Revenue for It.
Medicover is selling India to buy back management focus. KKR is paying 5.4 times revenue for exactly that. Both can be right.
DealPulse Report July 2026: Vertex Pays 102% as Oncology Cedes the Lead
Every July metric fell except the median and the cash share. Vertex paid a 102% premium for Crinetics and carried a fifth of the month alone.
AstraZeneca Announced Nothing. The Market Charged It $24bn Anyway.
AstraZeneca closed 9% down on an unconfirmed report of Bristol Myers talks. Roughly $24bn gone, on a conversation neither company will admit to.
KKR’s 51.8% Premium for Integer Is Measured From Before the Company Said It Was for Sale
KKR’s 51.8% premium for Integer is struck to the day before Integer said it was for sale. The 28.8% is what a holder actually gained.
Indivior’s Holders Take 56.5% and $1 Billion, Supernus Takes the Name, the CEO and the Building
Indivior holders take 56.5% and a billion in cash. Supernus takes the name, the CEO and the building. Equals describes the board seats only.
Curium’s CVR Waterfall Says It Trusts DEFINITY, Is Betting on Neurology, and Doubts Prostate
Curium locked 89.5% of consideration in cash and hung the rest on prostate. The CVR waterfall is the buyer’s own forecast, published.