All Mergers and acquisitions articles – Page 8
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Total to buy Saft for battery boost
€950m deal pushes French oil giant deeper into renewables
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Evonik acquires Air Products’ chemical unit
Air Products also spinning off electronic materials to focus on industrial gases
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Daiichi Sankyo awarded damages from former Ranbaxy owners
Arbitration says Singh family withheld information about regulatory investigations during Ranbaxy takeover
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Abbot boosts heart devices with St Jude buyout
Medical devices consolidation continues with $25bn deal, but Abbott expresses concerns over proposed Alere merger
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Cancer deals spread
AbbVie nabs antibody specialist Stemcentrx, while Sanofi pursues Medivation
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Chemours sheds disinfectants and aniline
Dow Chemical and Germany’s Lanxess will buy plants as Chemours restructures following its spin-off from DuPont
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US treasury rules scupper Pfizer–Allergan merger
Government aims to crack down on corporate tax avoidance through ‘inversion’ deals
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Roche sketches out Blueprint collaboration
Drug discovery startup will contribute to cancer immunotherapy projects aimed at kinase enzymes
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Sanofi and Merck & Co end vaccines partnership
Two-decade-long alliance will split by end of 2016
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AkzoNobel to buy BASF’s industrial coatings
€475 million deal includes technology, products and sites in the UK and South Africa
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Mylan to buy Meda in further generics consolidation
£6.9bn deal will give combined company ‘critical mass’ in US market
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ChemChina offers to buy Syngenta in $43bn takeover
Directors welcome deal that will allow agrochemicals giant to establish a presence in China
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Medical devices consolidation continues
Abbott to buy Alere for $5.8bn to augment its point-of-care diagnostics business
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Shire bets big on rare diseases
$32bn Baxalta buyout will deepen Shire’s commitment to developing specialist drugs for small patient populations
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ChemChina buys German machinery maker
Plastics and rubber equipment manufacturer KraussMaffei Group will retain German headquarters after €1bn deal
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ThermoFisher will buy Affymetrix to expand genetic testing
Deal boosts Thermo’s position in growing genomics field as well as adding antibodies and assay technology
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GSK’s ViiV to buy HIV drugs from BMS
Deal hands over Bristol-Myers Squibb’s entire HIV pipeline as the company looks to quit virology research
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AstraZeneca to buy Acerta for blood cancer drug
Deal will strengthen AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy offering
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BioAtla and Pfizer to collaborate on antibody research
Two-way agreement to share technology and royalties on new cancer drugs