Title: Trends in life sciences licensing:
1- Trends in life sciences licensing
- what the alliances of 2006 tell us about 2007
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LES Vancouver chapterMarch 29, 2007James
Hatton
2Experienced Advisorson Collaborations
Development and License Agreement
Collaboration and License Agreement
Joint Development Agreement
Collaboration and License Agreement
Strategic Alliance and Exclusive Master
Agreement
Development Agreement
3Trends in life sciences licensing
- idiosyncratic look
- focus on important and innovative collaborations
- implications for deal points and structures for
life sciences licensing in 2007
4Sources of exceptional collaborations
- Recombinant Capital's 2006 Breakthrough
Alliance nominees - Scrip Awards 2006 Licensing Deal of the Year
nominees andPartnership Alliance of the Year - Burrill Co.'s quarterly publications to Q1 2006
5Breakthrough Alliance nominees
- GSK Epix of 12/06 (not yet disclosed)
- Janssen Vertex of 6/06
- MedImmune Infinity of 8/06
- Novartis HGS of 6/06
- Takeda Affymax of 6/06
6Scrip Awards nominees
- Alnylam Novartis of 12/05
- AtheroGenics IPR AstraZeneca of 12/05
- HGS Novartis Collaboration Agreement of 6/06
- Nastech PG of 1/ 06
- NicOx Merck of 3/06
- Protherics AstraZeneca of 12/05
- Trubion Wyeth of 12/05
7Definitive list of alliances of 2006
- approximately 20 agreements
- full text disclosed athttp//del.icio.us/JamesHat
ton/interesting
8Exceptional collaborations of 2006
9Exceptional collaborations of 2006 contd.
10http//del.icio.us/JamesHatton/interesting
11Source of the full text
12http//www.jameshatton.com/public/
13Alliance trends background information
- Total industry-wide alliances
- Average upfront payments
- Regional deals
- information courtesy of James Watson,Burrill
Company Merchant Banking
14Total industry-wide alliances
15Average upfront payments
16Average total payments
17Regional deals world-wide rights on the wane
18Regional deals Asia and America on the rise
19Alliance trends
- empty pipelines increase biotech market power
- biotechs seek to grow into mini-pharmas (through
licensing) - biotechs seek higher returns by bearing more of
the risk
20Biotech market power
- lots of little wins
- e.g. equity at a premium
- 40 Acadia Sepracor
- 30 Protherics AstraZeneca
- 25 Pharmacopoeia GSK Pharmion MethylGene
- 20 Exelixis GlaxoSmithKline
- 15 Orthologic Quintiles
21Growth through licensing
- retention of rights
- regional deals
- cost and profit sharing
- co-promotion rights
- right to lead development
- quids
22Regional deals
- AVI Cook US EU
- Myogen GSK WW ex US
- Nuvelo Bayer WW ex US
- Pharmion GPC EU c.
- Pharmion MethylGene NA EU c.
- Vertex Janssen EU c.
23Cost sharing and some profit sharing
- HGS Novartis 50 profit share in US
- Intermune Roche 33
- Infinity MedImmune 50 costs and profits
- Pharmion GPC shared costs royalties 26-34
- Pharmion MethylGene 40 royaltiesNA 13-21
ROW 10-13 - Vertex Janssen 50 royalties tiered average mid
20's
24Co-promotion rights in the US
- BioCryst Roche
- EPIX GlaxoSmithKline
- Infinity MedImmune
- Intermune Roche
- NicOx Merck
- Plexxikon Roche
- Trubion Wyeth
25Licensors right to lead development
- EPIX GlaxoSmithKline EPIX develops to proof of
concept - Infinity MedImmune Infinity develops to proof of
concept - Plexxikon Roche Plexxikon develops to Phase I
- Pozen AstraZeneca Pozen develops to NDA in US
26Quids
- a licensee offsets the cost of an alliance by
offering a non-cash asset, such as trading one
drug for the rights to another one. Quids often
involve co-promotion alliances - AthroGenics AstraZeneca sales force
- Myogen GSK US drug distribution
- (Neurocrine Pfizer) detailing rights
- (Abbott Cephalon) RFN
- (Exilixis BMS) drug back
27implications for life sciences licensing in 2007
- expect to win more of the small stuff
- profit sharing deals still the exception
- consider option rightsPharmion MethylGene
- how best to grow?retain regional rights
co-promotion rights development rights quids
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and the full text of all background licenses,
please contact - James Hatton Farris, Vaughan, Wills Murphy
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