Deal Making: If I Knew Then What I Know Today

02 Jun 2017

• By Mike Ward and Lubna Ahmed

David Chiswell, Jane Dancer and Konstantinos Efthymiopoulos shared lessons they have learnt over the years about deal making at this year's 'If I Knew Then What I Know Today' panel at the AngloNordic meeting in London.

AngloNordic Panel 2017 — Biotech pioneers discuss deal making lessons learned • Source: Lubna Ahmed

Risks, regrets and missed opportunities were some of the underlying themes of this year's 'If I Knew Then What I Know Today'panel discussion at the 14th AngloNordic meeting in London. Scrip's Mike Ward spoke to Kymab Ltd.'s chair, David Chiswell; F-Star Biotechnology Ltd.'s chief operating officer, Jane Dancer; and Konstantinos Efthymiopoulos, SynAffix BV's chair, about deal making, lessons learnt and what they wish they had done – or indeed hadn't done.

One thing that F-Star's Dancer wished she had wasted less time on, in her early days of deal making, was...

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