Tag Archive for: lifesciences

JPM ’24: The year’s healthcare barometer gives a more sunny outlook

The JPM Healthcare Conference of 2024 may not have witnessed a mega-merger announcement, but there is anticipation that the M&A market could pick up this year, with predictions that the economic headwinds of recent years could turn into tailwinds.  The recent M&A Firepower report from EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, has forecast a […]

Medicxi Announces $400m Medicxi IV

Fund to focus on its pioneering ‘asset-centric’ investment model, backing visionary biopharma entrepreneurs and drug hunters along the full drug development spectrum  27 July 2023, London, Geneva & Jersey: Medicxi, a leading European life sciences investment firm, today announces its $400 million Medicxi IV fund. The new fund will continue to support drug hunters with clear product […]

An interview with Dan Mahony, UK Government Life Sciences Envoy by Optimum’s Eva Haas

In episode four of Optimum Perspectives Podcast, our in-house IR expert, ex-Fund Manager Eva Haas interviewed Dan Mahony, Chairman of the BioIndustry Association (BIA), following his appointment as UK Life Sciences Investment Envoy to hear his plans for championing the UK’s Life Sciences industry. Dan’s circuitous and unplanned journey to his current role involved among […]

Dan Mahony & Gareth Powell – Global healthcare investing: Can hindsight hone the crystal ball for the future? A fireside chat moderated by Amy Brown, Evaluate Vantage

Dan Mahony and Gareth Powell are long time, successful life sciences and healthcare investors. They are luminaries of the UK and European healthcare ecosystem, who have been investing since the late 1990s and initially worked together at Polar Capital where together they set up the biotech and healthcare investment funds. Gareth is still Head of […]