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DRI Healthcare Trust / Bain Capital / NovaQuest Capital Management (tavapadon royalty funds)

2026 · Asset Purchase · $316M · Pending

On 2026-09-21 DRI Healthcare Trust announced purchase agreements to acquire certain royalty participation rights in U.S. net sales of tavapadon from funds managed by Bain Capital and NovaQuest Capital Management for an aggregate purchase price of US$316 million. Post-closing DRI receives combined tiered royalties at mid-single-digit to low-double-digit rates on annual U.S. net sales, four annual fixed payments of US$23.4 million on the first four anniversaries of FDA approval, and sales milestones, subject to a hard cap of US$437.5 million in aggregate receipts. Closing is conditioned on FDA approval of tavapadon and other customary conditions. Tavapadon is a selective dopamine D1/D5 receptor partial agonist for the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. NOTE: ingested at pending_review by bd-enrichment-2026-10-05.

This deal is too recent to grade. Critic Score and Outcome Score are assigned after the announcement-week coverage settles and, for Outcome, after the 5-year post-close assessment window opens — expected 2031 at the earliest for this deal, once/if it closes.

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