At­las wraps Arteaus sto­ry with $260M roy­al­ty sale as Em­gal­i­ty sales inch­es up­ward

Six months af­ter Eli Lil­ly notched a sec­ond-run­ner-up ap­proval for its CGRP mi­graine drug Em­gal­i­ty, the At­las-found­ed biotech that brought it over the proof-of-con­cept gate five years ago has sold all its roy­al­ty in­ter­est for $260 mil­lion.

In Arteaus’ “fi­nal chap­ter” — as At­las part­ner Bruce Booth calls it — the now-de­funct biotech hand­ed Roy­al­ty Phar­ma all pro­ceeds it would earn on fu­ture glob­al net sales of Em­gal­i­ty. The deal marks the fi­nal mon­e­ti­za­tion from Arteaus, which ceased op­er­a­tions as an in­de­pen­dent en­ti­ty af­ter Eli Lil­ly bought back rights to the drug in 2014.

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