Bio­haven is bet­ting hun­dreds of mil­lions it can hus­tle ahead of ri­vals in a block­buster race. A quick M&A deal could pay off back­ers big time

Bio­haven $BHVN may not have any­thing like the mar­ket caps of its ri­vals at Al­ler­gan $AGN and Eli Lil­ly $LLY, but they’re not let­ting the David vs. Go­liath sta­tus of their com­pe­ti­tion stop them from mak­ing a big bet on a fast win for a new oral drug to treat acute mi­graine. And they’re backed by a group that has an eye on a po­ten­tial buy­out.

The biotech has ac­quired a pri­or­i­ty re­view vouch­er from GW Re­search for $105 mil­lion, look­ing to shave 4 months off their mar­ket­ing ap­pli­ca­tion for rimegepant — a year af­ter they man­aged to dis­en­chant its in­vestors with their pos­i­tive Phase III da­ta, which failed to dra­mat­i­cal­ly break away from the place­bo group.

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