Mesa Laboratories announced the closing of its Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, which provides up to $200 million of senior secured debt through a syndicate of banks led by JPMorgan Chase Bank. The Credit Agreement includes a $75 million senior...
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April 09, 2024, 07:26 AM
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Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announced the launch of its Life Sciences Business Unit. Designed to help address industry challenges and provide comprehensive solutions, A&M’s Life Sciences Business Unit leverages the firm’s integrated platform and...
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January 09, 2024, 07:37 AM
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Comerica Bank promoted Grant Simon to Senior Vice President - Technology and Life Sciences (TLS), Group Manager, San Francisco, effective August 11, 2023. He will report to Robert Hernandez, Group Manager, TLS – California.In his new role, Simon will...
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August 11, 2023, 07:49 AM
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Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, announced that 16-year SVB veteran Jackie Spencer has been named the new Head of Relationship Management for Life Science and Healthcare Banking. The company also announced that 26-year SVB...
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July 28, 2023, 07:51 AM
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Monroe Capital has completed the acquisition of Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC (“Horizon”), a market leader in venture debt lending. Horizon is the investment adviser to Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. Horizon is a leading...
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July 05, 2023, 08:08 AM
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SWK Holdings Corporation, a life science focused specialty finance company catering to small- and mid-sized commercial-stage companies, signed a new four-year credit facility with First Horizon Bank. The four-year facility, which has $45 million...
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June 30, 2023, 08:02 AM
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Oaktree Capital Management closed its Life Sciences Lending Fund and its related vehicles (“the Fund”), with total capital commitments in excess of $2.3 billion. The Fund, which is Oaktree’s first dedicated life sciences fund, was oversubscribed and...
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June 26, 2023, 08:20 AM
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Specialty finance provider Mitsubishi HC Capital America entered into a $20 million facility to provide supply chain financing for an IT value-added reseller (VAR) serving the life sciences sector. With the VAR’s end customer requiring a sales cycle...
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November 29, 2022, 07:20 AM
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SWK Holdings Corporation, a life science focused specialty finance company catering to small- and mid-sized commercial-stage companies, announced the signing of the 5th Amendment to the Loan and Security Agreement with Cadence Bank. The amendment...
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November 17, 2022, 07:28 AM
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced the launch of a new life sciences private equity team, Life Sciences Private Capital. The new team will invest in both early and growth stage healthcare companies across multiple strategies aligned to specific...
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November 02, 2022, 08:02 AM
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Stephens announced Matt Dormer and Chris Cooley will join the firm’s Investment Banking division as Managing Directors to focus on Health and Life Sciences. Mr. Dormer is joining Stephens from another firm while Mr. Cooley is transferring from...
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September 20, 2022, 07:25 AM
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Ardelyx, a biopharmaceutical company, announced it has entered into a debt financing agreement with investment affiliates managed by SLR Capital Partners."We are pleased to enter into this agreement with SLR for non-dilutive capital ahead of an...
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February 25, 2022, 08:03 AM
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Centogene N.V., a commercial-stage company focused on generating data-driven insights to diagnose, understand, and treat rare diseases, closed a EUR 15 million (approx. USD 17 million) private placement financing from investors led by DPE Deutsche...
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February 01, 2022, 07:47 AM
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Arcutis Biotherapeutics, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing meaningful innovations in immuno-dermatology, obtained a $225 million term loan facility from funds managed by SLR Capital Partners (“SLR”). This additional capital...
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December 27, 2021, 08:03 AM
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Oxford Finance closed a $50 million senior secured term loan with Kezar Life Sciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing breakthrough treatments for immune-mediated and oncologic disorders.Proceeds from the...
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November 11, 2021, 07:59 AM
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Audax Private Debt, as Joint Lead Arranger and Bookrunner, provided a unitranche credit facility to support the acquisition of Genesee Scientific (“Genesee” or the “Company”) by LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm focused on...
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October 25, 2021, 07:06 AM
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Runway Growth Capital, a leading provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, hired Igor DaCruz as Managing Director to continue to expand the company’s Life Sciences Origination...
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October 07, 2021, 07:39 AM
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Bridge to Life, a leading global supplier of organ preservation solutions and organ perfusion technologies, announced the first closing of a growth financing, totaling $56 million, led by Perceptive Advisors.The capital raise consists of a secured...
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August 23, 2021, 07:00 AM
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FTI Consulting appointed Michael Rachlin as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Valuation & Financial Advisory Services practice within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment.Rachlin, who will be based in New York, is an expert in life...
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May 04, 2021, 06:00 AM
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Catalio Capital Management, a multi-strategy life sciences investment firm, announced the launch of their Credit Opportunities strategy to expand the scope of the firm’s investments across the biomedical technology industry and meet the growing...
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February 03, 2021, 07:50 AM
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J.P. Morgan Commercial Banking announced the hiring of Skip Kelly as managing director and relationship executive on the Venture Capital (VC) Coverage team within its Middle Market Banking and Specialized Industries (MMBSI) group. Based in Boston...
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December 18, 2020, 08:00 AM
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Oxford Finance LLC, a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, announced the closing of a $25 million senior secured term loan with Karius, Inc., a life science company transforming...
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November 30, 2018, 07:15 AM
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NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, announced that it has entered into a new $100 million term loan facility with the CR Group L.P. (CRG), a health care focused...
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October 17, 2018, 07:00 AM
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SWK Holdings Corporation, a life science focused specialty finance company, announced that it has closed a $20 million revolving credit facility with AloStar Capital Finance, a division of State Bank & Trust.SWK intends to use the credit facility to...
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July 05, 2018, 07:12 AM
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Restoration Robotics, Inc., a leader in robotic hair restoration, announced that it has reached an agreement with Solar Capital Ltd. and the Life Sciences Group at Bridge Bank to secure a debt facility agreement for $20.0 million.The agreement...
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May 14, 2018, 07:05 AM
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Horizon Technology Finance Corporation, a specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and cleantech industries...
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April 11, 2018, 07:09 AM
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Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of solutions to advance life science, announced that the Company has completed the previously announced acquisition of Data Sciences International, Inc. (DSI)....
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February 02, 2018, 07:11 AM
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LBC Credit Partners, a provider of financing solutions to middle market companies, provided $46 million in senior secured credit facilities to Life Science Holdings, LLC. The proceeds were used to refinance existing indebtedness and provide for...
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August 09, 2017, 07:08 AM
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CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets a family of innovative cardiovascular products based upon its novel Polyzene™-F nanocoating technology, announced the completion of a 4-year joint financing...
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August 08, 2017, 07:08 AM
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J.P. Morgan has rapidly expanded its Life Sciences team within its Commercial Banking business to help companies meet their unique risks, opportunities and challenges. In just one year, the team has recruited key talent and created a national...
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July 27, 2017, 07:15 AM
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Solar Capital Ltd. and Solar Senior Capital Ltd. announced that they have formed Solar Life Science Program LLC with Deerfield Management. Founded in 1994, Deerfield Management is a private investment firm with over $8 billion in assets under...
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February 23, 2017, 07:11 AM
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Oxford Finance LLC, an industry-leading specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, announced that it has been acquired by an affiliate of Wafra Capital Partners, whose family of funds and...
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November 18, 2016, 07:45 AM
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Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, announced it is growing its expertise in a key sector of the innovation economy. To lead this endeavor, Jeff Chapman has joined the firm’s Menlo Park office as Partner and Head of...
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August 17, 2016, 07:41 AM
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CEOs in the life sciences business are more bullish about their own sector than their peers in other industries, and approximately 84 percent plan to hire in the next 12 months, according to KPMG LLP’s U.S. CEO Outlook 2016.All 38 life sciences CEOs...
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August 12, 2016, 07:49 AM
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Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. announced the appointment of Kristen Kosofsky as Senior Managing Director in the Life Sciences Group in Hercules’ Boston office. “I am pleased to welcome Kristen to Hercules and to have such an outstanding and...
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November 11, 2015, 08:05 AM
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AlixPartners, the global advisory firm, announced that Sanjay Ramaswamy has joined the firm as a Managing Director and Co-Head of the firm's Life Sciences Practice, where he will focus on serving clients in the pharmaceutical, medical-device and...
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June 05, 2015, 07:17 AM
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GE Capital’s Healthcare Financial Services business announced it has agented a senior secured credit facility of up to $19 million for Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. The company provides innovative products for faster detection of microbial...
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December 15, 2014, 08:03 AM
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Edge Therapeutics has obtained up to $10 million in venture debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. to support the continued development of EG-1962, the company’s lead product candidate.“We are very pleased to enter into this...
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September 09, 2014, 06:49 AM
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MidCap Financial, a leading healthcare oriented commercial finance company focused on the middle market in the United States, today announced it has been acquired by an entity managed by Apollo Global Management, LLC (together with its consolidated...
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November 19, 2013, 07:43 AM
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