Is there a recipe for M&A suc­cess? The best and worst buy­out deals in the past decade of­fer some keys to suc­cess — and fail­ure

It’s not easy achiev­ing a sol­id win in M&A in this in­dus­try. But if you fol­low a few sim­ple guide­lines, you may be able to in­crease your odds of suc­cess.

Ge­of­frey Porges and the team at SVB Leerink went about the “no­to­ri­ous­ly dif­fi­cult” task of scor­ing the bio­phar­ma buy­out of 2009 to 2019. Siz­ing up cur­rent and ex­pect­ed rev­enue from the prod­ucts that were gained, they came up with the 5 win­ners:

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