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1MA Pharmaceuticals
PBIRG 2001 Annual General Meeting May 23,
2001 Memphis, TN
Roger Longman Windhover Information Norwalk CT
06854 203-838-4401
2Consolidation Must Be Seen in a Broader Context
of...
- Pipeline productivity
- Prices for late-stage in-licensing
- Strategic myopia
3The biggest and most important industry deals
generally stem from a problem of productivity.
4The Pfizer Situation1999
- The Warner-Lambert Lipitor co-promotion
- 205mm upfront, milestones 50 of ongoing costs
one of three quids - Years 1-7, Pfizer gets 44.5 of revenues if
baseline sales achieved 31.5 years 8-10 - W-L can exit at year 6 for any reason at year 4
for change in control (Pfizer gets 75 of what it
would be otherwise owed) - Losing 25 of ones share of the biggest drug in
the world is a big number! - Warner could leverage its year 6 exit option for
another drug, particularly since it had begun to
lose confidence in eletriptan.
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
5Revealing the Real Downside of the Lipitor Deal
- If Pfizers own pipeline doesnt produce, what
will it do to supplement its 25 of the biggest
drug in the world? - The Trovan disaster
- Pfizers late-stage pipeline problems of 99
- Droloxifene (dropped for breast cancer in phIII)
- Darifenacin (dropped for irritable bowel in
phIII) - Zopolrestat (dropped for diabetic neuropathy in
phIII) - Eletriptan (80mg dose non-approvable)
Source IN VIVO, November 1999
6Pfizer Would Have Trouble Supplementing Pipeline
with New Co-Promotions
- Few new blockbuster products available that can
make up for its pipeline losses - Unclear the available late-stage quids it can
offer to a partner - Eletriptan and inhaled insulin both partnered
leaving ziprasidone--now Geodon, but at that
time, as Zeldox, somewhat problematic thanks to
its 1998 non-approvable letter
Source IN VIVO, November 1999
7With No Other Choice, Pfizer Reverses Course
- Negotiates for acquisition of Searle
- Launches hostile bid for Warner
- Downsides
- Hurts status as partner of choice
- Must create long-term success through
consolidation without damaging short-term
performance--when there are few earlier models of
success - Pfizer itself hasnt done significant previous
pharma acquisitions
Source IN VIVO, November 1999
8The Situation 2001
- Pfizer 30bb in sales
- Meeting earnings targets thru consolidation
synergies - Less clear which new drugs will provide dramatic
sustained growth - A few clinical disappointments (Agourons cancer
drug) - Major new co-promotions signed by competitors
- Novartis Zelmac goes to Bristol Celltechs
CDP-870 to Pharmacia - Several companies dropped out of Spiriva bidding
due to BIs insistence on a short-term deal - Rumors of next acquisition already flying
9Pfizers Situation is Big Pharmas Situation
- Near term pipeline gaps
- Harvest of genomics still years ahead
- But increasing pressures on pricing of current
products worldwide - Fear that the Third World price reductions will
come to the US - Medicare drug benefits
- Increasing dependence on US market
- Meanwhile Wall Street is demanding double-digit
earnings growth - The hostile threat
10MA solves the most important of these problems,
at least in the near term, through cost-savings.
11MA Activity in Pharma
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
12But Most Big Pharma Consolidation Does Little
Else Beyond First Three Years
- Mergers fuel marketing arms race, do not clearly
increase marketing productivity - Marketing spend at largest companies creeping up
to 40 of sales - No clear RD productivity gains from larger
budgets - No top executives seriously argue that deals are
RD driven - Rarely alter total pipeline prospects
- Companies with rich pipelines too expensive to be
taken over
13Then again, it aint easy to find new products
any other way, either.
14The JJ ModelBuy Mid-Sized Underexploited
Pipelines
- Centocor (7/99) 4.9bb acquisition (Source HQ)
- ReoPros value 1.25bb (5 x 99 est. sales of
480mm) x 50 (since Lilly takes 50 of sales) - Retavases value 770 8.5 x estd 99 sales and
2.4 x price Centocor paid Roche 18 mos. earlier - Remicades value 2bb (15 x estd 99 sales 7 x
estd 285mm 00 sales approved only for Crohns
disease--but data supports approval for RA) - But JJ was right on Remicade 500mm sales 2000
340 increase over 1999. - Same with Alza? (4/01) 13.1bb--21x sales
- Figures 40 growth for top three products under
JJ (Concerta, Ditropan, Doxil330 of total
607mm product contract sales)
15But most companies arent interested in niche
products.
- So they pay MA prices for in-licensed products.
16The Increasing Cost of Late-Stage Deals
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
17Bigger and Riskier Deals
- Novartis/Bristol on Zelmac vs. Pfizer/Warner on
Lipitor - Bigger relative economics
- two quids vs. one quid similar cash lower
royalties - For smaller-market drug
- 2-4bb in IBS vs. 8-10 bb in cholesterol
lowering - With less available data (one Zelmac ph III trial
complete, one ongoing vs. all Lipitor ph III
trials complete) - Merck KGAA/GlaxoSmithKline on Paxil follow-on
EMD-68843 - Ph II product with no superior efficacy data
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
18Increasing Deal Values
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
19Increasing Competition for Important Late-Stage
Products from Big Biotech
- Theyve been living on the edge for years.
Were concerned about risks in trials,
manufacturing, the marketplace. They obsess less
about these risks. And the companies with a
greater tolerance for risk will overtake those
companies doing things the old fashioned
way.--Sr. Pharma Exec. - Genentech
- OSI, Actelion (bosentan and tezosentan),
Cor/Schering - Amgen
- Praecis, Immunomedics, Synergen
- ImmunexAbgenixs EGFR inhibitor
- BiogenElans Antegren
20The size can create co-promotion partner of
choice idea is a myth!
- In part because product lines of the mega-merged
companies are too wide to avoid internal
competition with in-licensed product.
21Whos Got the Leverage?
- Mid-sized biotech-based drug companies
- Growth is easier for smaller companies
- Easier to grow 20 annually on 500mm in sales
than 10 on 20bb in sales - Wider variety of development choices than Big
Pharma - Dont need to limit themselves to 1bb products
- Unafraid of large molecules
- Similar access to discovery resources and
probably greater ability to integrate them into
RD process - Big Pharma
- Money always talks
22Squeezing the Traditional MiddleSell-Out or
Bust-Out
- Pipeline problems of Big Pharma without the cash
- Selling out is easiest and can be lucrative
BASF, DuPont - Bust out is expensive and risky
- PG tries to buy Warner/AHP--began 50 price
decline, ouster of CEO - Abbott/BASF
- Difficult to cut costs in Europe
- One main clinical candidate (D2E7 see
comparative value of Pharmacia/Celltech) - Major ongoing costs (375-400mm in interest
expense which is half estimated peak sales for
D2E7) - But Abbott needed European presence, pipeline,
and large-molecule capacities
23Acquisition that Works
- Reinvention
- Financial sophistication
- Strength adds strength
24Novartis Nearly New
- Marketing is almost completely new
- Most top corporate marketing execs new to
organization - Thomas Ebeling, Andrew Kay
- Many key country/local marketing managers
- Paolo Costa, Kurt Graves (US), Adrian Adams (UK),
Giacomo di Nepi (Italy), Masahiro Michisuji
(Japan) - New global branding religion
- Diovan up 54--early evidence of renewed effort
- RD still largely Sandoz
- But major renovation of phase III IV efforts
- With a huge dollop of good luck (6 of 7 ph III
products reached target profiles Zelmac,
Starlix, Gleevec/Glivec - Original thinking around pricing Glivec/Gleevec
- But all for naught if launches underperform
- Particular questions on Starlix
SOURCE IN VIVO 1/2001
25Roche/Genentech
- 60 acquisition in 1990 leaves independent,
infuses cash, but takes ROW marketing rights
option to acquire remainder at capped price - Now accounts for gt10 of Roches total sales
- Reacquisition and Divestiture
- Buys remainder (33) at 82.50/sh (3.7bb)
immediately sells 16 of new shares at 97/sh
(1.9bb) then same amount at 143.50/sh
(2.9bb)and so on - Roche financial income accounted for 30 of
total income in 2000
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
26Intrabiotech Deals Can Work Because...
- Buying companies for capabilities, not cost
reductions - Buyer generally adds credibility and financial
stability to sellers program, allowing for
step-up in deal value when comes time to sign a
Big Pharma partnership - Buyers can afford to go after niche products Big
Pharmas believe they cant afford
27Intrabiotech MA Alkermes
- Acquisitions
- Enzytech (1992 29mm)
- Medisorb (1996 7mm)
- Advanced Inhalation (1999 106mm)
- Even after late-stage failure of major alliances
with Schering and JJ, broad platform enables it
to maintain market cap
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
28Alkermes Acquisition of AIRA Tidy Profit for
Advanced Inhalations Shareholders
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
29But Alkermes Now in a Position to
ChallengeSpecialty Pulmonary Players
- AIR had three feasibility deals
- But questionable whether it could convert them on
its own because no human proof of principle, no
manufacturing - If AIRs technology didnt work, no fall back
- Alkermes bet investors willing to accept dilution
for broader base - And Alkermes shares rose after transaction--fully
paying for dilution - Because of Alkermes greater credibility, able to
turn feasibility deals into full-scale programs
with GSK, Lilly (on insulin) and MedImmune
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
30Other Exemplary Intra-Biotech Deals
- Genzyme/GelTex
- RenaGel Welchol
- Amgen/Synergen
- IL-1ra (now key RA and, possibly, sepsis program)
- Millennium
- ChemGenics (1/97--89mm--4.625/MLNM sh)
- Leukosite (10/99--585mm 8.25/MLNM sh)
- Cambridge Discovery (7/00--53mm, cash)
- Current MLNM price 45 (market value 9.5bb)
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
31Biotech MA
SOURCE Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
32Hope v. Reality
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
33Intrabiotech MA Potential Solution
- But so far largely done for late-stage
products... - Chiron/Pathogenesis 729mm cash (Tobi)
- Elan/Liposome 675mm (Evacet)
- Genzyme/Geltex 1bb (Renagel, WelChol)
- And/or at relatively low prices...
- For every Evotec/Oxford Assymetry (475mm in
stock) theres Targeted Genetics/Genovo
(68.9mm) Antigenics/Aquila (40mm) or
CeNeS/Cambridge Neuro (40.8m) - And therefore are seen as admissions of failure
- And intrabiotech MA always managerially
difficult - Who will be CEO, CFO, CSO?
Source Windhovers Strategic Transactions
Database
34To Make Big Pharma Mergers Work Requires Real
Reinvention
- Most acquirers have serious long-term problems
most acquisition targets likewise problematic. - Attractive targets are attractive either because
plenty of costs to cut or for pipeline /or
growing products - Former deals work for max. of 3 years without
reinvention - Latter deals too expensive (Sanofi at PE45x
Lilly at highest PEG in industry) - But while acquirer willing to restructure target,
not usually willing to restructure itself - Mergers generally involve weaker companies--and
create unwillingness to restructure X 2
35So What Do We Expect from Dealmaking in the Next
Few Years?
- Continuing intrabiotech MA (particularly of
one-technology players), without significantly
shrinking the total number of biotechs - The start-up machine runs by itself
- Continuing consolidation among Big Pharma
- Survival dealmaking will be increasingly
expensive - New models of Pharma MA must be created
- Big Pharma will learn how to do deals for maximum
value - If they dont, we will see the arrival of the
Disrupters
36The Disrupters?
- Big Pharmas unwilling to restructure can make
attractive targets for large-cap outsiders - Particularly those with strong information
systems applicable to target marketing perhaps
discovery/development - Ability to finance deal
- With debt (Big Pharma balance sheets
extraordinarily unleveraged) - Saving on ballooning marketing costs
- The GE multi-divisional, goal-oriented management
style
SOURCE IN VIVO The Disrupters 4/01