Clare Ozawa, Chief Bus ines s Officer Inception Sciences Rekha Hemrajani, VP, Head of Licens ing and M&A, Onyx Pharmaceuticals Topics for Today • Why Partner • How To Structure a Partnership • How To Value a Partnership • The Deal Environment & Current Metrics • The Deal Process • Is the Business Model Broken? Considerations for a Business Development Professional • Recent Examples 2 Why Partner 3 Why Partner • Cash • Development & Commercial Skills • External Validation • Risk Sharing or Increasing Shots on Goal “Pharma” “Biotech” • Technical Skills • Product Candidates • Speed • Innovation But this view ignores some complexities… 4 “How We Used To Do It” Financing Your Biotech Company - 2001 $600 Private Public $300 $500 $400 s n o i l$300 l i M $150 $ $200 $30 $100 $50 $1 $10 $0 NIH / VC - early VC - late / "VPalhidaartminag " IPO Public Academic stage mezzanine PPaarrttnneerrsshhipip Secondaries Grants 5 But Things Have Gotten More Complex… 6 It Is Taking Longer And More Capital For Companies to Exit Average Equity Raised by Life Sciences Average Time to Exit of US Venture- Companies Backed Life Sciences Companies by to Acquisition by Year of Exit ($ Millions) Year of Exit (Years) Source: NVCA and Thomson Reuters 7 Healthcare IPOs Have Dwindled Over Time Percentage of Total IPOs per Year, 2004-2012 Source: Renaissance Capital; BIO website 8 Although Recent Data Suggests Some Reawakening of the Biotech IPO Market… --NASDAQ Biotech Index --NASDAQ --S&P 500 • 2 Preclinical IPOs in 2012: Regulus (RGLS) and Verastem (VSTM) Source: Yahoo Finance 9 Biotechnology VC Total Funding and # of Deals By Year 1995 – 2012 And VC Funding is Down almost 30% 10 Source: PWC Money Tree
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