Blog: Cooley's 2020 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review | Cooley LLP
General Trends in Life Sciences M&A If 2019 was the year of life sciences mega-deals, 2020 was the year of COVID-19, as the global pandemic permeated every aspect of the dealmaking landscape, with the life sciences sector being no exception. COVID-19 drove unprecedented levels of collaboration among biopharmaceutical companies seeking to develop a vaccine, leading to an accelerated research and development process that allowed not just one—but two—vaccines to be approved by the FDA in record-breaking time. In contrast, aggregate M&A deal value for the life sciences sector was down nearly ...
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