Project financing, claim its proponents-in particular Symphony Capital-offers an alternative to highly dilutive equity offerings, preserving the upside from the development of a successful product for the biotech. That's true, though this expensive capital isn't for everyone. Yet as Big Pharma's productivity challenge deepens, project financing is helping to swing the balance of power further towards small companies.
By Roger Longman
Between 2000 and 2005, according to Quintiles Transnational Corp. , the number of Phase III compounds in Big Pharma...
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