With high ex­pec­ta­tions on Provenge, Den­dreon is 'sol­d' (again) in $832M deal

Den­dreon — and its fad­ed can­cer star Provenge — is chang­ing hands for the sec­ond time in less than two years.

Their new own­er is Nan­jing Xin­bai, a de­part­ment store con­glom­er­ate that’s been beef­ing up its phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal busi­ness, which first pro­posed to snap up the prostate can­cer cell ther­a­py last No­vem­ber.

The deal is val­ued at $872 mil­lion (CNY 59,680,000,000), though no cash is in­volved. San­pow­er Group, which cur­rent­ly owns Den­dreon through a Hong Kong-based sub­sidiary called Shid­ing Sheng­wu Biotech­nol­o­gy, is al­so a con­trol­ling stock­hold­er of Xin­bai. Mov­ing Den­dreon in­to pub­licly trad­ed Xin­bai “has been San­pow­er’s long-term plan since ac­quir­ing Den­dreon in 2017,” Den­dreon CEO Jim Caggiano wrote via email.

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