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...BioNTech and Pfizer have said the patents are invalid....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...Allen West, a Republican candidate in the governor’s race in Texas, fell ill with coronavirus this month....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...If you recall back in May, our colleagues dug into how the once struggling drugmaker found its footing — after fighting off a hostile takeover bid from the US rival Pfizer — to climb the ranks of the UK’...
...(NYT) News Round-up Private equity funds receive record amounts of capital (FT) China’s hobbled dealmakers yield foreign M&A crown to Japan Inc....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Scripps: Allen & Co, JPMorgan and Weil Gotshal....
...(NYT) Scandal taints Japan Inc Japan’s elite manufacturers — Kobe Steel, Mitsubishi Materials and Subaru, among others — were thought to be models of elite efficiency....
...Before that, he worked at Freshfields and Australian firm Allens....
...Trivago, which began as German start-up, said it will issue American depository shares representing class A shares of its affiliate, Travel B.V., which will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under...
...The Rolling Stones spent years trying to get out of their contracts with former manager Allen Klein....
...Just last month a $28bn planned merger between oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes was sunk by the Department of Justice and new tax rules prompted Pfizer to scrap its planned $160bn...
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...The company has produced eight original series, with several more in the works, including one directed by Woody Allen....
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...In the case of Kirtsaeng v Wiley, the court ruled in favour of Supap Kirtsaeng, a California student who asked his family in Thailand to buy textbooks for him at low international prices so he could resell...
...In an unusual commitment between rivals, Johnson & Johnson will combine forces with Pfizer and Abbott to develop a macrofilaricide anti-worming pill to tackle river blindness and lymphatic filariasis....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Pfizer, the largest US drugmaker by market value, inched down 0.7 per cent to $14.54 as the stock being removed from the “conviction buy” list at Goldman Sachs....
...McClay was already in his 70th year when he founded the Almac Group in 2001, which now has 2,600 staff in the UK and the US, providing services in cancer and other research to 600 firms worldwide, including Pfizer...
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