Mergers & acquisitions – it’s all about collaboration, says Mike Straw, Achieve Breakthrough. He argues that deals are all about people as well as the numbers, and it’s the collaboration that will make a deal truly work.
The amount of M&A and deal activity in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors in recent months has been remarkable: more than $460bn of deals since the beginning of 2014, the highest amount in such a timeframe on record.