During Q2 biopharmas reached $5.9bn in merger and acquisition value and drew in $44bn in potential deal value from alliances. Device company M&A values reached $159m, while in vitro diagnostic firms and research tools players completed M&A activity that totaled $1.4bn.

During Q2 biopharmas brought in an aggregate $32.3bn in financings and device company fundraising totaled $9.5bn; while in vitro diagnostic firms and research tools players brought in $2bn across the period.

Genmab and AbbVie penned a broad oncology collaboration worth up to $3.9bn. Novo Nordisk entered into an agreement to acquire Corvidia Therapeutics for $725m up front in cash and up to $1.375bn in earn-outs.

Repare Therapeutics and Bristol Myers Squibb announced a multi-target discovery collaboration potentially worth over $3bn. Alexion Pharmaceuticals entered into a definitive agreement to acquire fellow public biotech Portola Pharmaceuticals $1.44bn. An increase in both follow-on public offerings and PIPE financings boosted biopharma financing significantly from last month.

AstraZeneca and Silence Therapeutics entered a March alliance worth up to $4.08bn for the discovery and development of siRNA drugs for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic and respiratory diseases, while the top April deal was a $3.9bn tie up between Fate Therapeutics and Janssen for iPSC-derived cell-based cancer immunotherapies.

A review of biopharma start-up dealmaking and financing activity from January through March 2020, based on data from Biomedtracker.