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...After making “don’t f**k the customer” one of its principles, Atlassian has found success by building flexible, open-source products that do not lock customers into expensive long-term licensing contracts...
...Auden Mckenzie and Actavis UK increased the price of a 10mg packet by more than 10,000 per cent compared with the original branded version of the drug, the CMA said....
...JPMorgan Chase is poised to collect the largest individual fee to a bank for selling a company, earning $123m for advising Botox-maker Allergan on a planned $63bn sale to US pharmaceutical group AbbVie....
...Appaloosa currently holds a 0.35 per cent stake in Allergan, according to Eikon data, making it Allergan’s 44th largest shareholder....
...F**k Business was written by Cicero executive chairman Iain Anderson about Brexit and the title references a comment famously made by Boris Johnson last year before he became PM....
...“F**k, I don’t know what to do with this . . . he wants his money.”...
...The firm’s original investment in Allergan was a money-spinner, reaping gains of $2.3bn before the company agreed a sale to Actavis....
...The relevant SEC filings were made by Allergan, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Actavis plc....
...Actavis was sold last year by Allergan of the US to Israel’s Teva for $40.5bn....
...Teva, the Israeli maker of generic drugs, bought Actavis Generics from the US’s Allergan for $40.5bn....
...by Actavis, the generic drugs arm of US-based Allergan....
...Less than a year later Forest was acquired by Actavis (which subsequently merged with Allergan) resulting in massive gains for Forest shareholders....
...In 2013 Ireland-based Warner Chilcott bought US-based Actavis, then in 2015, Actavis bought US-based Allergan....
...“The selection of the U.K. to undertake this work is a notable achievement and recognises the military aircraft support skills and capabilities that we have here in the UK,” said Andrew Tyler, chief executive...
...Allergan, previously known as Actavis, was itself one of numerous lesser-known US companies to have “redomiciled” to Ireland or other lower-tax countries....
...How did we get into this world of corporate flux, in which companies such as Valeant and Actavis, which acquired Allergan and renamed itself, gobble up others before most people have learnt their peculiar...
...Teva of Israel is close to completing its $40bn takeover of Allergan’s Actavis generics division and Mylan of the US last month agreed to buy Meda of Sweden for $7.2bn....
...Allergan (formerly known as Actavis and before that as Watson) describes itself as pioneering a new model in the drug sector....
...It is just over a year since Brent Saunders became chief executive of Allergan, then known as Actavis, but he has changed the company beyond recognition....
...The remarks came in a ruling on Thursday that overturned Pfizer’s UK patent for use of Lyrica against pain and rejected its claim of patent infringement by Actavis, the generic drugs arm of US-based Allergan...
...Shortly after, Pfizer contacted Actavis, as Allergan was then known, about a potential deal, but the overture did not result in discussions....
...Last November, drugmaker Actavis clinched a $66bn deal for Allergan, best known for its Botox treatment but whose biggest business was eyecare products (Actavis later rebranded itself as Allergan)....
...The purchase underscores the increasing importance of the cosmetic dermatology market for Allergan, which recently changed its name from Actavis after last year paying $70bn for the maker of Botox and facial...
...Others include Actavis, which bought Allergan, the maker of Botox, last year for $66bn and has since adopted the Allergan name....
...Valeant tried to buy Allergan in a bitter takeover war last year, but lost out to Actavis, which acquired the group for $70bn before adopting its name....
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