Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals 2016-2025

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Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals | Global coverage | Deal financials | Contract documents | Deal trends | Leading dealmakers | Collaboration, licensing, development, and research deals |Comprehensive deal directory 2016 to 2025

Publication date
May 2025
Number of pages
200+
Product type
Research report
Available formats
PDF document
Report edition
7
SKU
CP2121

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals provides a comprehensive understanding and unprecedented access to the microbiome deals entered into by the worlds leading biopharma companies.

Fully revised and updated, the report provides details of microbiome deals from 2016 to 2025.

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The report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter microbiome deals. These deals tend to be multicomponent, starting with collaborative R&D, and commercialization of outcomes. 

The report includes collaboration, development, research and licensing deals.

This report contains a comprehensive listing of 245 microbiome deals announced since 2016 including financial terms where available including links to online deal records of actual microbiome partnering deals as disclosed by the deal parties. In addition, where available, records include contract documents as submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission by companies and their partners.

The initial chapters of this report provide an orientation of microbiome dealmaking. 

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the report.

Chapter 2 provides an overview of the trends in microbiome dealmaking since 2016.

Chapter 3 provides an overview of the leading microbiome deals since 2016. Deals are listed by headline value.

Chapter 4 provides a comprehensive listing of the top 25 most active companies in microbiome dealmaking with a brief summary followed by a comprehensive listing of microbiome deals, as well as contract documents available in the public domain.

Chapter 5 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of microbiome deals signed and announced since Jan 2016, where a contract document is available in the public domain. 

Chapter 6 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of microbiome partnering deals signed and announced since Jan 2016. The chapter is organized by specific microbiome technology type in focus.

The report also includes numerous table and figures that illustrate the trends and activities in microbiome deal making since 2016.

In addition, a comprehensive deal directory is provided organized by company A-Z, deal type and therapeutic target. Each deal title links via Weblink to an online version of the deal record and where available, the contract document, providing easy access to each contract document on demand.

Key benefits

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals provides the reader with the following key benefits:

•    Understand deal trends since 2016
•    Browse microbiome collaboration and licensing deals
•    Benchmark analysis – identify market value of transactions
•    Financials terms - upfront, milestone, royalties
•    Directory of deals by company A-Z, deal type and therapy area
•    Leading deals by value
•    Most active dealmakers
•    Identify assets and deal terms for each transaction
•    Access contract documents - insights into deal structures
•    Due diligence - assess suitability of your proposed deal terms for partner companies
•    Save hundreds of hours of research time

Report scope

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals is intended to provide the reader with an in-depth understanding of microbiome trends and structure of deals entered into by leading biopharma companies worldwide.

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals includes:
•    Trends in microbiome dealmaking in the biopharma industry
•    Directory of microbiome deal records covering pharmaceutical and biotechnology
•    The leading microbiome deals by value
•    Most active microbiome licensing dealmakers

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals provides comprehensive access to available records for deals, including contract documents where available.

Analyzing contract agreements allows due diligence of:

•    What are the precise rights granted or optioned?
•    What is actually granted by the agreement to the partner company?
•    What exclusivity is granted?
•    What is the payment structure for the deal?
•    How are sales and payments audited?
•    What is the deal term?
•    How are the key terms of the agreement defined?
•    How are IPRs handled and owned?
•    Who is responsible for commercialization?
•    Who is responsible for development, supply, and manufacture?
•    How is confidentiality and publication managed?
•    How are disputes to be resolved?
•    Under what conditions can the deal be terminated?
•    What happens when there is a change of ownership?
•    What sublicensing and subcontracting provisions have been agreed?
•    Which boilerplate clauses does the company insist upon?
•    Which boilerplate clauses appear to differ from partner to partner or deal type to deal type?
•    Which jurisdiction does the company insist upon for agreement law?

Microbiome Collaboration and Licensing Deals provides the reader with the following key benefits:

•    Understand deal trends since 2016
•    Browse microbiome collaboration and licensing deals
•    Benchmark analysis – identify market value of transactions
•    Financials terms - upfront, milestone, royalties
•    Directory of deals by company A-Z, deal type and therapy area
•    Leading deals by value
•    Most active dealmakers
•    Identify assets and deal terms for each transaction
•    Access contract documents - insights into deal structures
•    Due diligence - assess suitability of your proposed deal terms for partner companies
•    Save hundreds of hours of research time

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Trends in microbiome dealmaking
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Microbiome deals over the years
2.3. Most active microbiome dealmakers
2.4. Microbiome deals by deal type
2.5. Microbiome deals by therapy area
2.6. Microbiome deals by industry sector
2.7. Deal terms for microbiome deals
2.7.1 Microbiome deals headline values
2.7.2 Microbiome deal upfront payments
2.7.3 Microbiome deal milestone payments
2.7.4 Microbiome royalty rates

Chapter 3 – Leading microbiome deals
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Top microbiome deals by value

Chapter 4 – Most active microbiome dealmakers
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Most active microbiome dealmakers
4.3. Most active microbiome deals company profiles

Chapter 5 – Microbiome contracts dealmaking directory
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Microbiome contracts dealmaking directory

Chapter 6 – Microbiome dealmaking by technology type

Deal directory

Deal directory – Microbiome deals by company A-Z
Deal directory – Microbiome deals by deal type
Deal directory – Microbiome deals by therapy area

Deal type definitions

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Table of figures

Figure 1: Microbiome deals since 2016
Figure 2: Active microbiome dealmaking activity – 2016 - 2025
Figure 3: Microbiome deals by deal type since 2016
Figure 4: Microbiome deals by therapy area since 2016
Figure 5: Microbiome deals by industry sector since 2016
Figure 6: Microbiome deals with a headline value
Figure 7: Microbiome deals with an upfront value
Figure 8: Microbiome deals with a milestone value
Figure 9: Microbiome deals with a royalty rate value
Figure 10: Top microbiome deals by value since 2016
Figure 11: Most active microbiome dealmakers 2016 - 2025
Figure 12: Microbiome deals by technology type since 2016

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Deal records are continuously reviewed and enriched as additional information becomes available, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and relevance.


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  • Therapy area and technology type
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