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Tulevik | Life Sciences Deal Intelligence & M&A Advisory

The best life sciences deals are found, not marketed.

Tulevik combines deep sector intelligence with principal-led M&A advisory — helping investors and operators identify opportunities earlier and execute with conviction.

Since 2017

advising life sciences investors and operators

40+ years

combined principal transaction experience

125+

transactions directed by our principals

4 continents

North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia

Tulevik is a life sciences deal intelligence and M&A advisory firm based in Victoria, British Columbia. Tulevik works with private equity sponsors, strategic acquirers, CDMOs, and pharma services companies across North America, Europe, and Latin America — identifying acquisition and divestiture opportunities, running buy-side and sell-side processes, and advising on entry into new markets.

Four decisions that determine the outcome

Tulevik helps investors, strategics, and innovators answer the questions that shape every life sciences transaction — with clarity, conviction, and evidence.

Where to play?

Identify the most attractive markets, technologies, and opportunity spaces across the life sciences.

What to pursue?

Prioritise the targets, partnerships, and investments that actually create strategic value.

When to act?

Read market readiness and transaction conditions, and move at the right moment.

How to win?

Execute transactions and market entry with confidence and strategic clarity.

From opportunity to execution

Tulevik supports the full strategic decision lifecycle — finding the opportunity, transacting on it, and scaling what follows.

Opportunity discovery

Deal intelligence

We find what the market hasn’t priced yet.
Tulevik surfaces undervalued, overlooked, and emerging opportunities through Next-Gen Deal Intelligence — the firm’s proprietary methodology, which integrates asset-level manufacturing intelligence with transaction analytics and direct industry relationships. It routinely identifies targets well before an asset reaches a formal process.

Capabilities

Market mapping and landscape intelligence
Opportunity identification and prioritisation
Strategic market positioning
Target identification and engagement
Valuation and market benchmarking

Outcomes

Proprietary access to targets before a process begins
Underserved segments and strategic whitespace, mapped
A defensible investment thesis, built on primary evidence
Transaction execution

Curated M&A advisory

Principals on your deal, from first look to close.
Tailored advisory delivered by the firm’s principals as an embedded partner — not a staffed pyramid. The people who pitch your mandate are the people who run it, supported by analysts and specialists selected for the specific engagement.

Capabilities

Buy-side advisory
Sell-side advisory
Transaction strategy
Deal preparation and sale readiness
Strategic buyer and investor outreach
Carve-out and divestiture analysis

Outcomes

Competitive tension built deliberately, not hoped for
Shorter time from mandate to signed
Valuation supported by positioning, not just process
Strategic growth

Insight-driven market entry

Enter new markets on evidence, not assumption.
Tulevik helps companies and investors evaluate, size, and enter new markets — combining quantitative analysis with principals who have run the facilities, the processes, and the P&Ls in question.

Capabilities

Market opportunity assessment
Competitive landscape analysis
Entry strategy development
Partner and acquisition target identification
Strategic expansion roadmaps

Outcomes

A costed, sequenced entry strategy
Faster expansion decisions with less internal debate
Market risk identified before capital is committed

Brought in mid-process

Deals don’t always announce themselves in advance. Tulevik is regularly engaged by private equity deal teams, corporate development groups, and other advisors who need specific life sciences capability at short notice — manufacturing and GMP assessment, regulatory exposure, supply chain risk, and capacity or valuation benchmarking.
We work alongside your existing team and advisors rather than replacing them. Scope can be a two-week confirmatory review or a full workstream inside a live process. Where confidentiality requires it, we work behind your name rather than ours.
Manufacturing and GMP assessment

Site capability, capacity, compliance exposure, remediation cost

Regulatory exposure

Approval pathway risk, inspection history, filing portfolio review

Supply chain and logistics

Network assessment, single-source exposure, cold chain

Capacity and valuation benchmarking

Asset comparables, contract economics, utilisation analysis

Commercial and market assessment

Demand modelling, competitive benchmarking, primary research

Who you'll work with

Tulevik is led by two principals. Every engagement is run by one of them.

Twenty years in pharma services M&A, CDMO strategy, and operational diligence.
Kiirsten L. Suurkask
Founder and President
Growth strategy, corporate development, and carve-out diligence across three continents.
Alain T. Suurkask
Chief Commercial and Innovation Officer

Every engagement is principal-led and supported by analysts and specialist consultants selected for the mandate.

Why clients bring us in

Unique intelligence, deep sector expertise, and trusted networks that uncover opportunities others miss.

Deep sector expertise

Two decades advising investors and operators across the pharmaceutical value chain, with manufacturing evaluated first-hand across biologics, aseptic fill-finish, vaccines, advanced therapies, and APIs.

Network-driven access

A trusted network of executives, investors, and operators that surfaces opportunities and insight beyond traditional advisory channels.

Next-Gen Deal Intelligence

Our proprietary methodology, combining asset-level manufacturing intelligence with transaction analytics and two decades of direct relationships across the sector.

From insight to execution

Tulevik doesn't stop at analysis. We stay in the room from opportunity discovery through transaction execution and post-deal expansion.

Our areas of expertise

Deep expertise across the life sciences ecosystem. Headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, with engagements across North America, Europe, and Latin America.

Industries we serve

Pharma and biotech
Advanced therapies
CDMOs and pharma services
Compounding pharmacies
Consumer health
Digital health
MedTech

Value chain coverage

R&D and tech transfer
Analytical & quality operations
Drug substance & drug product manufacturing
Primary & secondary packaging
GMP storage & cold-chain logistics

Transaction types

Carve-outs and divestitures
Mergers & acquisitions
Strategic partnerships
Licensing & strategic alliances
Growth investments & early-stage advisory

Selected experience

Representative engagements led by Tulevik’s principals. Client and counterparty names withheld by agreement.

Currently advising on two sell-side manufacturing divestitures, both in confirmatory diligence.
Deal intelligence
OTC liquid manufacturing acquisition search

Retained to find a large-scale liquid manufacturing site. Screened 207 FDA-registered liquid and topical facilities across the US and Canada against a defined technical specification, prioritised 68, shortlisted 12 through confidential outreach and site visits, and qualified four actionable targets to a single recommendation. 207 screened, 12 site-visited, 1 recommended.

Deal intelligence
Platform acquisition strategy

Evaluated a universe of 700+ companies to define acquisition criteria, test platform theses, and build a prioritised target list for a buy-and-build strategy. 700+ companies screened to a ranked platform thesis.

Curated M&A advisory
Aseptic fill-finish acquisition search

Retained to identify sterile manufacturing capability. Identified 231 aseptic operations across the US and Canada, filtered to 22 prioritised sites against client technical criteria, qualified six actionable targets, and benchmarked 17 comparable aseptic facility transactions. 231 operations screened, 6 actionable targets, transaction completed.

Curated M&A advisory
Sell-side divestiture programme

Ran a structured sell-side process for a manufacturing asset, engaging a buyer pool of 300+ and profiling 50+ high-priority prospects to build competitive tension deliberately. 300+ buyers engaged, 50+ prospects profiled.

Insight-driven market entry
GMP cold storage market assessment

Assessed the US GMP cold storage market across four temperature regimes — refrigerated, frozen, ultra-low, and cryogenic — sizing demand, mapping national and regional providers, profiling end-user requirements, and modelling revenue. Delivered a ranked entry recommendation with configuration and redundancy guidance.

Embedded capability
Two-week confirmatory diligence

Engaged mid-process to deliver fast-turnaround market intelligence and site deep dives, drawing on subject-matter experts to surface red flags and upside ahead of a committee decision. Two-week turnaround inside a live process.

Who we work with

Tulevik supports investors, strategics, and innovators across the global life sciences ecosystem.

Investors

Private equity and growth investors seeking proprietary deal flow, platform strategies, and transaction support.

Pharma services and CDMOs

Companies and sponsors pursuing acquisitions, partnerships, and growth in complex manufacturing and services markets.

Pharma and biotech

Organisations evaluating acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic expansion.

Advisors and deal teams

Banks, advisory firms, and corporate development groups needing life sciences depth inside a live transaction.

Emerging life sciences companies

Innovators navigating commercialisation strategy, partnerships, and market entry.