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Jazz Pharmaceuticals to acquire Celator in $1.5 billion deal

May 31, 2016
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing $1.5 billion, Vyxeos, acquisition, celator, jazz, leukaemia, merger, oncology

Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ) has announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Celator Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CPXX) …

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Pfizer to acquire Anacor in $5.2 billion deal

May 16, 2016
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing 5.2 billion, FDA, Pfizer, acquisition, anacor, crisaborole, merger

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has acquired Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ANAC) in a deal worth around $5.2 billion, or $99.25 per share. …

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AbbVie expands oncology portfolio with $5.8 billion Stemcentrx acquisition

April 29, 2016
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, acquisition, rova-t, stremcentrx, takeover

AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has announced the acquisition of Stemcentrx, and its lead late stage, lung cancer candidate Rova-T (rovalpituzumab tesirine), …

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Abbott to purchase St Jude Medical in $25 billion deal

April 28, 2016
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing $25, 25 billion, Abbott, Medical device, acquisition, purchase, st jude medical

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has announced an agreement to purchase device manufacturer, St Jude Medical, in a deal worth $25 billion. …

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Eisai announces agreement to set up new gastrointestinal speciality company

March 30, 2016
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ajinomoto, Eisai, absorption, acquisition, ea pharma, gastrointestinal, merger, speciality

Eisai (TYO: 4523) and Ajinomoto Co. (TYO: 2802) have announced an agreement to establish a new gastrointestinal speciality pharmaceutical company, …

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Lupin completes acquisition of US-based Gavis Pharmaceuticals

March 10, 2016
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing FDA, Gavis, Lupin, acquisition, generics

Indian drug manufacturer Lupin has announced the completion of its acquisition of New Jersey-based pharmaceutical firm, Gavis, in a deal …

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Reports: $32bn Shire takeover of Baxalta close to done deal

January 4, 2016
Sales and Marketing Baxalta, Shire, acquisition, merger

The deal may have failed to get over the line in 2015, but reports suggest the mega merger is to …

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Mirror. Signal. Merger. How to deal with a pharma takeover

December 14, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Deals, acquisition, buyouts, mergers, takeovers

So 2015 has been a record year for M&A in the pharma industry.The Financial Times has called this “the most …

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Bristol-Myers Squibb enters academic R&D tie-up

November 4, 2015
Research and Development BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardioxy, John Hopkins, acquisition, immunooncology, job losses

Bristol-Myers Squibb and The Johns Hopkins University have entered into a collaboration agreement, as part of the pharma firm’s rare …

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GSK ploughs $95m into research institute

June 17, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Pfizer, acquisition, altius, merger, takeover

GlaxoSmithKline is pouring $95 million into a new US research institute to investigate how a cell’s operating system works in …

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PrimeVigilance and Sound Opinion join forces

May 26, 2015
acquisition, medical information, primevigilance

Ergomed plc, the parent company of PrimeVigilance, has acquired Sound Opinion, one of the UK’s leading Medical Information (MI) service …

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Pfizer to buy Hospira for $17 billion

February 5, 2015
Sales and Marketing Hospira, Humira, Pfizer, acquisition, biosimilars, merger

Pfizer has struck a deal with Hospira to acquire the company in a deal worth around $17 billion. Industry analysts …

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GSK-Novartis mega-deal signed-off by EC

January 29, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Abbott, GSK, Mylan, Novartis, acquisition, etc, merger

The European Commission has approved a GSK-Novartis M&A deal, in which GSK will purchase Novartis’ vaccines unit and Novartis will …

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Allergan eyeing Actavis buyout

November 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Actavis, Allergan, Botox, Valeant, acquisition, buyout, merger

Allergan is attempting to block a recent Valeant hostile takeover bid by seeking the rumoured alternative merger deal with Actavis, …

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Pfizer ‘significantly undervalued’ AstraZeneca

April 29, 2014
Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Pfizer, acquisition, buyout, merger

AstraZeneca has broken its silence to insist that Pfizer’s financial offer in January for the company “very significantly undervalued AstraZeneca …

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