Pharma News Intelligence July 28, 2020
Samantha McGrail

There were only two major pharmaceutical merger and acquisition deals so far, but the potential for more activity is there, PwC reports.

A recent PwC insights analysis found that the pharmaceutical merger and acquisition activity saw a notable decline in the first half of 2020, but the potential for consolidation in specific sub-sectors remains high.

There were only two major deals in the first quarter of 2020, Qiagen and Thermo Fisher Scientific at $11.8 billion and Forty Seven and Gilead at a $5.0 billion value.

This number reflects a major decline from the second half of 2019, which saw four major deals during the last six months of the year, researchers explained.

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