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Dealwatch: Big-ticket life sciences activity picks up again as overseas investors buy into the UK

Dealwatch: Big-ticket life sciences activity picks up again as overseas investors buy into the UK

The broader life sciences sector saw a spate of deal activity in recent weeks, with two acquisitions over the billion-dollar mark and several more in the hundreds of millions.

The highest-value transaction came on 28 August, when US-based life sciences company Danaher announced its agreement to purchase Cambridge-based protein research tools supplier Abcam in a deal valued at $5.7bn.

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