Deal Watch: Best Value For Smaller Firms Lies In The Back-End
Executive Summary
With more deals on earlier-stage platform technologies and compounds, the companies offering such assets need to take a rational approach to pricing – accepting a lot of potential back-end compensation – to get fair value, one analyst says.
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