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China Investment Roundup: Active Deal-Making In Precision Medicine

 
• By Ying Huang

Winter is coming, yet China’s financial market is still hot for healthcare companies looking at a prosperous period of investment before the year ends. Capital investments from Chinese investors dramatically increased in November, particularly in the precision medicines segment. Although Chinese Creat Group’s expected record-breaking outbound pharmaceutical acquisition deal worth $1.5bn failed to gain US approval, cross-border M&A remained active.

Piggy bank

China’s healthcare industry has seen an increased level of financing activity in November, with a total of 24 deals in mostly early stage fundraisings for precision medicine and cell therapy. Among those deals, Frontline BioVentures committed to five investments alone, leading the domestic venture capitalists.

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