Teleflex to Acquire QT Vascular’s Coronary Products for Nearly $100 Million

According to the Straits Times, QT Vascular, a Singapore-based medical device company, reached an asset purchase and option agreement to sell its intellectual property rights to some of its non-drug coated coronary products, such as its Chocolate XD^® and Glider™, to Teleflex Life Sciences Unlimited Company and Teleflex Incorporated (“Teleflex“).  The agreement gives Teleflex the option to purchase QT Vascular’s drug coated product, the Chocolate Heart, which is still being developed.

Under the agreement, Teleflex may pay up to $98.4 million in cash—$26.2 million for the non-drug coated coronary products, $65.6 million for the drug coated coronary product, and up to an additional $6.6 million upon the achievement of certain sales revenue milestones.  According to the Straits Times, the total value of the deal may be greater than $100 million, which exceeds QT Vascular’s market value of $36.3 million as of May 23, 2018.

Eitan Konstantino, CEO of QT Vascular, stated:

We are excited that Teleflex, one of the world’s leading medical device companies, chose to acquire our coronary products and to obtain a license to our extensive coronary IP portfolio.  We will work closely with Teleflex’s team to bring our pioneering drug coated coronary product, Chocolate Heart™, to the US market.

According to QT Vascular’s press release, the deal is pending approval by its shareholders.  As reported in the Straits Times, QT Vascular and Teleflex are also negotiating other business agreements, including supply agreements related to the products QT Vascular is selling to Teleflex.

The press release states that QT Vascular will independently continue its development of other products, such as a planned Investigational Device Exemption clinical trial of its differentiated drug coated percutaneous transluminal angioplasty balloon (Chocolate Touch^®) in the U.S.

This deal follows the January 2018 announcement of QT Vascular’s sale of its non-drug coated Chocolate® PTA balloon catheter to Medtronics for $28 million.