Teva's US IUD Brings In $1.1bn For The Embattled Generics Firm
Executive Summary
Teva’s planned divestment of non-core assets in order to refocus the company after a troubled first-half has started with a contraceptive device.
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‘Untitled’ letter is FDA's third in the past eighteen months to target promotions for women’s health products. In the case of advertisement for CooperSurgical's copper-containing intrauterine device, which is regulated as a drug, the agency took issue with distracting visuals and reliance on superimposed text.
Device/Diagnostics Quarterly Deal-Making Statistics, Q3 2017
Third-quarter device financing at $2.38 billion – almost half of that amount from CooperSurgical's $1.1 billion bridge loan – was double the Q2 total, while device acquisitions showed a steep decrease at $3.38 billion versus Q2's $33.4 billion. Diagnostics fundraising also was up in the third quarter, reaching $2.4 billion (a 133% increase over Q2) mostly from Thermo Fisher Scientific's $1.5 billion follow-on offering, which accounted for 63% of the total. In line with the previous quarter's $1.7 billion in M&A, Q3 diagnostics acquisitions had an aggregate value of $1.8 billion, led by Konica Minolta's $1 billion buy of Ambry Genetics.