Aktis Oncology is a Boston radiopharmaceutical developer that did the opposite of last week's subject. Where Rallybio was hollowed into a shell and its one thin royalty ring-fenced into a contingent value right, Aktis spent 2024 and 2025 building a platform that big pharma paid to access,

A pharmaceutical royalty is a claim on protected sales. Strip away the science and the structuring and what a buyer is really pricing is a window: the years between launch and the day a generic or biosimilar can lawfully take the market. In the European Union, the instrument that sets

The rate quoted on a press release is a headline. What is actually paid is a function with arguments, and most of those arguments are drafted to move it. A royalty re-rates in two distinct places. The first is inside the underlying licence, where tiers, base adjustments, step-downs

The royalty economies in seeds, crop traits, fruit varieties, and bioprocessing platforms are just as real and just as patent-backed, with court records, license terms, and recent transactions to prove it, and almost no financing market on top.

The week in numbers June 14 to 20, 2026: one royalty-bearing license-out with a disclosed royalty rate (AbCellera with Jazz), two license or platform deals with undisclosed royalty terms (Protillion with Merck, cAMPfield with Newsoara), four re-rates of running third-party royalties (Karyopharm, F2G, Spero, Ligand), four

The least glamorous instrument in the toolkit, dissected down to the coupon Royalty finance gets written about through its friendliest instrument, the true sale. That is the one that makes the press releases: non-dilutive, off the balance sheet, no covenants, no maturity. The larger and quieter flow is its

Rallybio is a New Haven rare-disease biotech that lost its lead program in 2025, sold what it could, and by mid-2026 had been reduced to a stock-market listing and a pile of cash that an oncology company, Avenzo Therapeutics, is now reversing into. Its surviving royalty stack

What is KCap Biotechnology Fund? KCap Biotechnology Fund LP is a small, Boston based investment fund focused on RNA and genetic medicine companies. It is run through two related entities, Kuahiwi Capital LLC as general partner and Kuahiwi Management LLC as the management company, and it was co founded in

Non-recourse litigation sales are the fastest-growing and least-understood asset class in modern pharmaceutical royalty finance. They sit at the intersection of three distinct markets: the established institutional litigation finance industry (Burford Capital, Omni Bridgeway, Parabellum, Therium), the pharmaceutical royalty fund universe (Royalty Pharma, HealthCare Royalty, OMERS, XOMA)