All Mergers and acquisitions articles – Page 10
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Berry plastics to buy Avintiv for $2.5bn
Deal helps Berry diversify from food packaging into speciality medical materials
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AstraZeneca sells off drugs to streamline portfolio
Crohn’s disease and rare thyroid cancer drugs lie outside firm’s renewed strategic focus
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Lightweight composites drive Solvay to buy Cytec
$5.5bn deal launches Solvay into aerospace materials business
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Celgene to buy immune-inflammatory specialist Receptos
$7.2bn deal further strengthens Celgene’s position in immunology
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Hikma boosts generics with Roxane buyout
Acquiring the Boehringer Ingelheim subsidiary expands Hikma’s presence in US generics market
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Allergan steps away from generics with sale to Teva
$40.5 billion deal gives Allergan cash to clear debt and fund further acquisitions, and catapults Teva into global pharma top 10
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Biogen to develop gene therapies with AGTC
$1bn deal gives Biogen rights to one clinical candidate and several earlier-stage programmes for rare eye diseases
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US chemical maker Platform expands with Alent purchase
Platform Specialty Products plans to enlarge its scope and reach by acquiring British chemicals firm Alent for $2.1bn
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Celgene backs immunotherapy with Juno collaboration
$1bn investment in 10-year CAR-T cell partnership for cancer treatments
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Thermo Fisher to buy Alfa Aesar chemical supplies
Research chemicals business no longer a strategic fit for owner Johnson Matthey
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FeaturePharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations
Combinations of different firms’ drugs seek to reap immuno-oncology’s benefits
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Allergan to buy Kythera Biopharma for $2.1bn
Acquisition strengthens firm’s position in cosmetic treatments with only drug approved for a ‘double chin’
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Vertex nabs rights to cystic fibrosis molecules
Deal with Parion, worth up to $1bn, gives firm worldwide rights to investigational treatments that complement Vertex’s existing cystic fibrosis drugs
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Opko deepens diagnostics with $1.5bn lab buyout
Taking over clinical diagnostics service provider BioReference Laboratories gives Opko a bigger avenue to distribute and market its diagnostic tests
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OM Group to be sold and split
Apollo Global Management will buy the firm for $1bn, then sell electronic materials business to Platform Specialty Products
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Endo to buy Par as generics consolidation continues
$8bn deal follows trend as drugmakers aim for economies of scale
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Business$13.8bn Danaher bid wins Pall auction
Mega-merger follows consolidation trend in lab equipment supply sector, but analysts suggest this is yet to impact pricing competition
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Alexion to buy Synageva for rare disease drugs
$8.4bn deal gives firm access to enzyme drug currently under review with US and EU regulators
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BusinessMerger creates biggest supplier of unlicensed drugs
Clinigen will buy Idis to consolidate different routes by which doctors can access medicines that are unavailable locally
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BusinessGenerics firms in three-way takeover battle
Mylan is chasing Perrigo, while fending off advances from Teva