Article: Pharma's Shopping Continues, With Focus On Antibody Firms.

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Last year was heavy with M&A activity, and as it drew to a close, Jason Kantor, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, predicted more of the same for 2006, expecting keen interest in firms with antibody technology.

He's been dead on.

"Yeah, I stand by that," he recently told BioWorld Today. "I made these predictions late last year, that the M&As we saw [in 2005], which was a big step up, would continue," with special attention paid to antibody firms.

BioWorld's Snapshots Industry Data show an overall increase of nearly 20 percent in merger and acquisitions worldwide in 2005, up to 179, and through May this year, there have ...

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