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genisi

07/09/07 8:47 AM

#769 RE: DewDiligence #768

Probably a translation problem, could also be an over reaction of the writer who interpreted the CEO or the analyst who covers Kamada. My impression from David Tzur the CEO rules out the hutzpa possibility on his account.
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genisi

07/10/07 3:29 AM

#770 RE: DewDiligence #768

Kamada is making another headline:
Baxter in talks to buy Kamada for $150-200m
If a deal is reached, it will initially involve R&D cooperation, and Baxter will obtain some rights to Kamada’s API drug for treating lung diseases.
9 Jul 07 18:33
Sources inform ''Globes'' that Kamada Ltd. (TASE: KMDA) is conducting advanced negotiations with Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), which include a possible sale of the company at a value of $150-200 million.

If a deal is reached, it will include two stages. The first stage will involve R&D cooperation, amounting to tens of millions of dollars, under which Baxter will obtain some rights to Kamada’s Alpha-1 Proteinase Inhibitor (API) for treating lung diseases. Baxter will have also an option to acquire Kamada as a whole. The sources said that a Baxter negotiating team recently visited Kamada to discuss specifics of a deal.

Kamada CEO David Tsur denied the report, saying that the company was not for sale. He added that the marketing rights for inhalable API, the company’s flagship product, would not be given to another company at least until more progress had been achieved in its development.

Kamada’s parties at interest include Tsur, Ralph Hahn, and Leon Recanati (both personally and through GlenRock Israel). The company has a market cap of NIS 446 million, after raising NIS 30 million at a company value of NIS 120 million in late 2005. The company develops drugs and medical ingredients on the basis of human plasma. The company’s API targets congenital emphysema and cystic fibrosis. Another drug is used to treat rabies.

Baxter is a pharmaceutical and medical devices company with a market cap of $38 billion. It both competes against most of Kamada’s products and sells active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to the company.
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midastouch017

07/10/07 5:52 AM

#773 RE: DewDiligence #768

< Hebrew to English translation came out wrong? >

In general both Globes and Haaretz have been
downsizing the translation services for Hebrew
written articles due to cost savings.
In the Globes newspapers i see their for hire ads
for translators, from their salary offered small
wonder quality is affected.

The bottom line result is less in quantity and far
less in quality.

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