HBI Deals+Insights / M&A/IPOs
Samsung Biologics, a CDMO that is part of the South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group, is spending €1.6 billion buying out PolyPeptide, a listed Swiss CDMO specialising in peptide APIs. This will expand Samsung’s manufacturing capabilities beyond antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), and give it a slice of the critical supply chain infrastructure serving the booming demand for GLP-1s.





