Tag: Pharma business news

Takeda offers $62bn to acquire Irish rare disease company Shire

pallavi123- April 21, 2018

Japanese pharma company Takeda Pharmaceutical has proposed to acquire Shire, an Ireland-based rare disease company for $62 billion after Botox-maker Allergan scrapped its plans of ... Read More

Procter & Gamble to acquire Merck’s consumer health business for €3.4bn

pallavi123- April 19, 2018

P&G acquisition of Merck consumer health business : US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) has agreed to acquire German pharma company Merck’s consumer ... Read More

French pharma company Servier to acquire Shire oncology business for $2.4bn

pallavi123- April 16, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : French pharma company Servier Laboratories has made a $2.4 billion all-cash deal to acquire the oncology business of Irish biotech company ... Read More

Sanofi announces $396m vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto

pallavi123- April 15, 2018

French pharma company Sanofi has announced a new vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto to be built with an investment of CAD500 million ($396.3 million) at ... Read More

Alexion to acquire Swedish pharma company Wilson Therapeutics for $855m

pallavi123- April 14, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : US-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals through an all-cash deal of SEK7.1 billion ($855 million) will acquire Wilson Therapeutics, a Swedish pharma company focused ... Read More

GSK offloads rare disease gene therapy drugs to Orchard Therapeutics

pallavi123- April 14, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : British drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to transfer its rare disease gene therapy drugs to Orchard Therapeutics for an equity ... Read More

Novartis to buy US gene therapy company AveXis for $8.7bn

pallavi123- April 9, 2018

Novartis acquisition of AveXis : Swiss pharma company Novartis has struck a $8.7 billion deal to acquire US gene therapy company AveXis in a move ... Read More

GSK to buy out Novartis’ stake in consumer healthcare JV for $13bn

pallavi123- March 28, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to buy out Swiss pharma company Novartis’ stake of 36.5% in their consumer healthcare joint venture (JV) ... Read More

GSK, Reckitt Benckiser pull out from $20bn race to acquire Pfizer’s consumer healthcare business

pallavi123- March 24, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : In a blow to Pfizer’s plans to offload its consumer healthcare business for about $20 billion, both Reckitt Benckiser and now ... Read More

Danish pharma company Lundbeck to buy Parkinson’s drug developer Prexton

pallavi123- March 16, 2018

Pharma acquisition news : Danish pharma company Lundbeck has reached an agreement, expected to be worth around $1.1 billion, to acquire Prexton Therapeutics, a Swiss ... Read More