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...Germany’s BioNTech and US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said doses of the vaccine would be delivered to the UK in the coming days after the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)...
...Record label Warner Music and shoe maker Cole Haan have both delayed IPOs; Micro Focus, one of Britain’s largest listed technology businesses, shelved a $1.4bn loan on Monday; and Bausch Health has put its...
...In private, Durban has pointed to actions taken by big pharmaceutical companies as evidence that a vaccine will come sooner rather than later....
...A former Bausch & Lomb executive, the 49-year-old built Allergan through a succession of deals that began in 2013 when the company he ran, then called Actavis, bought Ireland-headquartered Warner Chilcott...
...Mark Warner, a Democratic senator in the US, said the purchase raised “serious concerns” as it could tip new areas of the burgeoning personalised health and wellness market in favour of the large tech companies...
...If US officials decline to challenge the deal, it will come on the heels of their defeat in a challenge to the tie-up between AT&T and Time Warner....
...He held a series of part-time jobs, working in a garment factory and as a delivery man for a pharmaceuticals company: he also wrote press releases for the National Tuberculosis Centre before landing a job...
...Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, said it hired Mr Cohen’s firm in February 2018 to advise on how the Trump administration would approach US healthcare policy....
...Time Warner, a tie-up Mr Trump had criticised on the campaign trail....
...If a takeover of Shire is consummated at current valuations, it would rank as one of the largest the pharmaceutical sector has ever seen, trailing Pfizer’s $112bn takeover of Warner Lambert in 2000, data...
...Mr Avenatti also claimed that Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, paid EC almost $400,000 in four payments from October 2017 to January 2018....
...A sale of $15bn of debt by Bayer on Monday to fund the acquisition was inundated with orders, allowing the German pharmaceutical and chemicals group to offer investors a lower yield than initially planned...
...For a number of high-profile deals, such as AT&T’s takeover of HBO-owner Time Warner, this has taken even longer....
...AT&T is awaiting a court decision on its takeover of Time Warner, which the Department of Justice sued to block in November 2017....
...“The companies will argue that a merger is vertical and will cut costs,” he adds, “but the government has shown in its opposition to the AT&T-Time Warner merger that it will challenge vertical combinations...
...Late in November, the DoJ moved to block AT&T’s $85.4bn takeover of Time Warner, which is a vertical deal....
...AT&T’s planned takeover of Time Warner AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner for $85bn hangs in the balance as the companies wait to see if US president-elect Donald Trump’s administration will block...
...In 2013 Ireland-based Warner Chilcott bought US-based Actavis, then in 2015, Actavis bought US-based Allergan....
...In 2013, US-based Actavis bought Ireland-headquartered Warner Chilcott, paving the way for the company to relocate its tax base away from the US and paved the way for a series of aggressive acquisitions...
...This helps explain how Actavis, Allergan’s predecessor, was able to reduce its tax rate to 17 per cent when it bought Warner Chilcott of Ireland in 2013....
...In 2013, US-based Actavis bought Ireland-headquartered Warner Chilcott, paving the way for the company to relocate its tax base away from the US and leading to aggressive acquisitions that culminated in...
...Comcast withdrew its $71bn takeover of Time Warner Cable last year, after the Department of Justice signalled it would try to stop the deal, which drew widespread opposition from campaigners who said it...
...committed to a Georgia that welcomes all people,” Time Warner said....
...At tronc, Mr Ferro has joined forces with Patrick Soon-Shiong, a California-based pharmaceuticals billionaire, to change the identity of a newspaper company whose revenues have been stagnant for years....
...The fund was also instrumental in building Valeant Pharmaceuticals through a string of acquisitions in the 10 years since it emerged as an activist at the company....
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