Antibiotic Collaboration and Licensing Deals 2016-2025

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Antibiotic 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
July 2025
Number of pages
100+
Product type
Research report
Report edition
7
SKU
CP2119

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

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

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The report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter antibiotic 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 137 antibiotic deals announced since 2016 including financial terms where available including links to online deal records of actual antibiotic 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 antibiotic dealmaking. 

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the report.

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

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

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

Chapter 5 provides a comprehensive and detailed review of antibiotic 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 antibiotic partnering deals signed and announced since Jan 2016. The chapter is organized by specific antibiotic technology type in focus.

The report also includes numerous table and figures that illustrate the trends and activities in antibiotic 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

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

•    Understand deal trends since 2016
•    Browse antibiotic 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

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

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

Antibiotic 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?

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

•    Understand deal trends since 2016
•    Browse antibiotic 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 antibiotic dealmaking
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Antibiotic deals over the years
2.3. Most active antibiotic dealmakers
2.4. Antibiotic deals by deal type
2.5. Antibiotic deals by therapy area
2.6. Antibiotic deals by industry sector
2.7. Deal terms for antibiotic deals
2.7.1 Antibiotic deals headline values
2.7.2 Antibiotic deal upfront payments
2.7.3 Antibiotic deal milestone payments
2.7.4 Antibiotic royalty rates

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

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

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

Chapter 6 – Antibiotic dealmaking by technology type

Deal directory

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

Deal type definitions

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Table of figures

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

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