Deals In Depth: January 2015

In a deal worth over $1 billion, Depomed got US rights to Janssen's pain drug Nucynta; Roche bought the majority stake in Foundation Medicine. FOPOs drove a large part of biopharma financing.

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Top Alliances In January 2015

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