Accenture: Acquisition Of Early-Stage Assets, Bio-Platforms Key To Accelerated Growth

Acquisitions of early-stage assets, biotech platforms and capabilities like AI are the way to faster growth for pharma companies, as Accenture’s Petra Jantzer told In Vivo. However, changing the focus of M&A away from conventional late-stage assets requires significant shifts in corporate and R&D culture.  

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Earlier in 2022, Accenture experts pored over the details of more than 300 mergers and acquisitions made by the 30 top biopharma companies between 2010 and 2021. They characterized the nature of those deals and found that 34% of all M&A focused on bolt-on, late-stage asset acquisitions.

But these, the experts observed, are “trending towards unsustainable,” as average takeout premiums for M&A deals valued at over $500m...

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