Product Code: CP2203
The definitive benchmark for central nervous system dealmaking
Central nervous system (CNS) partnering spans a wide range of deal structures across indications, modalities, and stages of development, reflecting the scientific complexity and risk profile of the space.
This report provides a comprehensive and structured analysis of 900+ CNS collaboration and licensing deals, delivering a clear and evidence-based view of how partnerships are designed, negotiated, and executed across the market.
Establish a clear view of market standards
The report enables a precise understanding of how CNS deals are structured in practice, allowing you to:
- Benchmark comparable transactions with confidence
- Detailed analysis of upfronts, milestones, and royalty structures across relevant deals
- Define realistic market parameters
- Clear insight into how deal terms vary by stage, asset type, and partner profile
- Support valuation and structuring decisions with evidence
- Ground internal discussions in real transaction data rather than assumptions
- Understand how leading companies approach dealmaking
- Visibility into partner behaviour and recurring deal structures across a highly heterogeneous therapeutic landscape
- Full visibility into deal structure and execution
- Beyond headline deal data, the report provides access to underlying contract documents, enabling a detailed understanding of how agreements are constructed in practice.
This includes:
- Rights granted and retained
- Development and commercialization responsibilities
- Financial structures and payment triggers
- Key contractual provisions and protections
- This level of transparency is critical to understanding how value, risk, and control are allocated within CNS partnerships, particularly in areas with higher development uncertainty.
- Designed for real-world BD and strategy use
The report is widely used to:
- Structure and benchmark live transactions
- Prepare for negotiations with well-defined market context
- Evaluate partnership opportunities and counterparties
- Support internal strategy with robust, defensible data
- What's included
- 900+ CNS collaboration and licensing deals
- Financial terms, including upfronts, milestones, and royalties where disclosed
- Fully searchable deal directory (by company, therapy, and technology)
- Direct access to SEC-filed agreements and source documents
- Analysis of deal trends, key transactions, and active dealmakers
- A trusted, evidence-based reference for CNS dealmaking
- Combining comprehensive deal coverage with contract-level insight, this report provides a trusted, evidence-based reference for how CNS partnerships are structured, negotiated, and valued.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Trends in central nervous system dealmaking
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Central nervous system partnering over the years
- 2.3. Central nervous system partnering by deal type
- 2.4. Central nervous system partnering by industry sector
- 2.5. Central nervous system partnering by stage of development
- 2.6. Central nervous system partnering by technology type
- 2.7. Central nervous system partnering by therapeutic indication
Chapter 3 - Financial deal terms for central nervous system partnering
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Disclosed financials terms for central nervous system partnering
- 3.3. Central nervous system partnering headline values
- 3.4. Central nervous system deal upfront payments
- 3.5. Central nervous system deal milestone payments
- 3.6. Central nervous system royalty rates
Chapter 4 - Leading central nervous system deals and dealmakers
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Most active in central nervous system partnering
- 4.3. List of most active dealmakers in central nervous system
- 4.4. Top central nervous system deals by value
Chapter 5 - Central nervous system contract document directory
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Central nervous system partnering deals where contract document available
Chapter 6 - Central nervous system dealmaking by therapeutic target
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Deals by central nervous system therapeutic target
- Deal Directory
- Deal Directory - Central nervous system deals by company A-Z
- Deal Directory - Central nervous system deals by technology type
- Deal type definitions
- About Biopharma Research Ltd
- Current Partnering
- Current Agreements
- Recent report titles from Current Partnering
Table of figures
- Figure 1: Central nervous system partnering since 2020
- Figure 2: Central nervous system partnering by deal type since 2020
- Figure 3: Central nervous system partnering by industry sector since 2020
- Figure 4: Central nervous system partnering by stage of development since 2020
- Figure 5: Central nervous system partnering by technology type since 2020
- Figure 6: Central nervous system partnering by indication since 2020
- Figure 7: Central nervous system deals with a headline value
- Figure 8: Central nervous system deals with upfront payment values
- Figure 9: Central nervous system deals with milestone payment
- Figure 10: Central nervous system deals with royalty rates
- Figure 11: Active central nervous system dealmaking activity since 2020
- Figure 12: Top central nervous system deals by value since 2020