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Business Development: Accelerating the Deal


Description: Close key deals and build a top-flight business development team in this report from Cutting Edge Information:

Deal-making is an established strategy for filling company pipelines, raising cash, expanding portfolios and driving long-term revenue. Whether companies forge straightforward licensing agreements or long-term alliances, organizations across the industry depend on other firms’ discovery, development and marketing capabilities to reach a range of different objectives.

Use this report to perfect your team's approach to different elements of the deal-making process. Explore primary data and read other executives' perspectives for a comprehensive look at current business development challenges:

- Align deal making with company and therapeutic franchise strategies
- Win competitive funding and staffing
- Streamline due diligence, early deal evaluation and negotiation
- Build cross-functional excitement for new deals
- Identify red flags and watch for stumbling blocks to deal success


Contents: Executive Summary 11
Profiled Companies 13
Methodology and Definitions 14

Business Development: Five Principles for Success 17
Business Development Budgets, Structure and Strategy 25
Business Development Budgets 27
Business Development and Licensing Structure 33
Business Development Strategy 55
Opportunity Identification and Evaluation 73
Best Practices 86
The Deal Identification and Evaluation Process 93
Due Diligence 99
Goals and Investments 103
Cooperation in Due Diligence 109
Cross-Functional Involvement 113
Best Practices 122
Deal Negotiation and Finalization 127
Business Development Deal Profiles 147
Deal Profile: Company 8 148
Deal Profile: Company 22 151
Deal Profile: Company 28 154
Deal Profile: Company 25 157
Deal Profile: Company 12 160
Deal Profile: Company 16 163
Deal Profile: Company 17 166
Deal Profile: Company 7 169
Deal Profile: Company 9 172

List of Figures
Executive Summary
Figure E.1: Deal-Making Challenges 11

Business Development: Building the Future
Figure E.2: Business Development Annual Budgets: Companies With Budgets Greater Than $1 Million 18
Figure E.3: Company G: Identification for Therapeutic Areas Covered by General Business Development 21
Figure E.4: Company O: Decision-Making Process 22

Business Development Budgets, Structure and Strategy
Figure 1.1: Centralization of Business Development Functions 26
Figure 1.2: Business Development Annual Budgets: Companies with Budgets Less Than $1 Million 27

Business Development Budgets
Figure 1.3: Business Development Annual Budgets: Companies with Budgets Greater Than $1 Million 28

Business Development and Licensing Structure
Figure 1.4: Business Development Staffing: Companies With 10 or More FTEs 33
Figure 1.5: Business Development Staffing: Companies With Fewer Than 10 FTEs 34
Figure 1.6: Company L’s Business Development Structure 35
Figure 1.7: Company M’s Split System 37
Figure 1.8: Company L’s Small BU Business Development Reporting Relationships 41
Figure 1.9: Company O’s BD&L Structure 46
Figure 1.10: Company Q’s Structure 48
Figure 1.11: Company L’s Primary Care BD&L Function 49
Figure 1.12: Company L’s BD&L Finance Team 50
Figure 1.13: Reasons for Pursuing New Deals 55

Business Development Strategy
Figure 1.14: Licensing Enters the Pipeline 56
Figure 1.15: Phases in Which Companies Focus for In-Licensing Deals 57
Figure 1.16: Phases in Which Companies Focus for Out-Licensing Deals 58
Figure 1.17: Phases in Which Companies Focus for Inbound, Co-Development Deals 59
Figure 1.18: Phases in Which Companies Focus for Outbound, Co-Development Deals 59
Figure 1.19: Phases in Which Companies Focus for Inbound, Co-Promotion Deals 60
Figure 1.20: Phases in Which Companies Focus for Outbound, Co-Promotion Deals 60
Figure 1.21: Company T’s Licensing Strategy Structure 65

Opportunity Identification and Evaluation
Figure 2.1: Structure of Deal Identification Process 74
Figure 2.2: Deal Challenges: Deal Identification and Evaluation 75
Figure 2.3: Deal Challenges: Identifying Deal Opportunities (by Company) 75
Figure 2.4: Deal Challenges: Establishing Partner Relationships (by Company) 76
Figure 2.5: Company M’s Basic Market Assessment 78
Figure 2.6: Company O’s Identification Process 79
Figure 2.7: Company G: Identification for Therapeutic Areas Covered by General Business Development 80
Figure 2.8: Company G: Identification for Therapeutic Areas Covered by Therapeutically Aligned BD 81

Best Practices
Figure 2.9: Company P’s Alliance Review Process 88

The Deal Identification and Evaluation Process
Figure 2.10: Company O’s Decision-Making Process 93

Due Diligence
Figure 3.1: Deal Challenges: Due Diligence 100
Figure 3.2: Master Due Diligence Model 101
Figure 3.3: Warning Signs 102
Figure 3.4: Due Diligence Duration 103

Goals and Investments
Figure 3.5: Due Diligence Investment 104
Figure 3.6: Company G’s Due Diligence Considerations 108

Cooperation in Due Diligence
Figure 3.7: Business Development Staffing By Deal Stage: Companies With Up to 10 Cumulative FTEs 113

Cross-Functional Involvement
Figure 3.8: Business Development Staffing By Deal Stage: Companies With More Than 10 Cumulative FTEs 114
Figure 3.9: Inbound Deals: Functions Involved in Due Diligence 115
Figure 3.10: Outbound Deals: Functions Involved in Due Diligence 115
Figure 3.11: Prevalence of Tools Used to Estimate Potential ROI 122
Best Practices

Deal Negotiation and Finalization
Figure 4.1: Deal Challenges 128
Figure 4.2: Business Development Staffing By Deal Stage: Companies With Up to 10 Cumulative FTEs 136
Figure 4.3: Business Development Staffing By Deal Stage: Companies With More Than 10 Cumulative FTEs 137
Figure 4.4: Inbound Deals: Functions Involved in Deal Negotiation/Finalization 139
Figure 4.5: Outbound Deals: Functions Involved in Deal Negotiation/Finalization 139

Business Development Deal Profiles
Deal Profile: Company 8
Figure 5.1: Deal-Making Background: Company 8 148
Figure 5.2: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 8 149
Figure 5.3: Finances and Key Challenge: Company 8

Deal Profile: Company 22
Figure 5.4: Deal-Making Background: Company 22 151
Figure 5.5: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 22 152
Figure 5.6: Finances and Key Challenge: Company 22 153

Deal Profile: Company 28
Figure 5.7: Deal-Making Background: Company 28 154
Figure 5.8: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 28 155
Figure 5.9: Finances and Key Challenge: Company 28 156

Deal Profile: Company 25
Figure 5.10: Deal-Making Background: Company 25 157
Figure 5.11: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 25 158
Figure 5.12: Finances: Company 25 159

Deal Profile: Company 12
Figure 5.13: Deal-Making Background: Company 12 160
Figure 5.14: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 12 161
Figure 5.15: Finances: Company 12 162

Deal Profile: Company 16
Figure 5.16: Deal-Making Background: Company 16 163
Figure 5.17: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 16 164
Figure 5.18: Finances: Company 16 165

Deal Profile: Company 17
Figure 5.19: Deal-Making Background: Company 17 166
Figure 5.20: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 17 167
Figure 5.21: Finances and Key Challenge: Company 17 168

Deal Profile: Company 7
Figure 5.22: Deal-Making Background: Company 7 169
Figure 5.23: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 7 170
Figure 5.24: Finances and Key Challenge: Company 7 171

Deal Profile: Company 9
Figure 5.25: Deal-Making Background: Company 9 172
Figure 5.26: Timing and Decision-Making: Company 9 173
Figure 5.27: Finances: Company 9 174


Companies Mentioned - Abbott Labs - Ablynx - ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals - Allergan - Altus - Amgen - Amylin - AstraZeneca - Bayer Schering - Biogen Idec - Boehringer-Ingelheim - Bristol-Myers Squibb - Caprion Proteomics - Celgene - Cancer Research Technology - Compugen - CytRx - DSM - Eisai - Eli Lilly - Epix - Eurand - Genentech - GlaxoSmithKline - Implicit Bioscience - Janssen-Cilag - King Pharmaceuticals - Lexicon - MedImmune - Merck & Co. - Merck Serono - Nerviano Medical Sciences - Neurochem - Neurogen - Novartis - Novo Nordisk - NPS - Onyx - Pfizer - Primus - Procter & Gamble - Purdue Pharma - Roche - Sanofi-Aventis - Solvay - Valeant Canada - Vifor


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