Will some pent-up deal pres­sure amp up a biotech ral­ly?

Over the last 6 weeks we’ve seen the Nas­daq biotech in­dex surge 21%, an ear­ly-stage com­pa­ny just up­sized its IPO and stuck to the range, sec­ondary of­fer­ings are do­ing bet­ter and a whole slate of big biotechs and phar­mas have made it plain that they’re hunt­ing for sig­nif­i­cant new deals be­fore the end of this year.

It’s the kind of en­vi­ron­ment that has peren­ni­al en­thu­si­asts cheer­ing a ral­ly that the in­dus­try hopes has legs need­ed to con­tin­ue past the dog days of sum­mer. And it has some big im­pli­ca­tions for the deal teams bar­ter­ing over biotech as­sets.

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