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...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...It also says that a decision to sell short Elan – betting its price would fall – merely balanced a long position in Wyeth....
...Barry Berke, a lawyer for Mr Steinberg, said his client has done nothing wrong....
...As Andrew Ross Sorkin at Dealbook notes: “The fund didn’t merely avoid losses, it greedily schemed to profit further by shorting Elan and Wyeth stock,” said April Brooks, a senior F.B.I.official in New...
...Mr Cohen began selling his stake in Elan and Wyeth, two pharmaceutical companies, after he had a 20-minute phone conversation with Mr Martoma, according to the indictment....
...Dr Gilman, who was paid more than $100,000 by an expert network for the meetings with Mr Martoma, chaired the safety monitoring committee overseeing the clinical trials testing Elan and Wyeth’s experimental...
...Pfizer inherited brands including Anadin, Preparation H and ChapStick as part of its purchase of Wyeth in 2009, just three years after selling its own CH business to Johnson & Johnson....
...2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed several hedge funds seeking documents relating to the patent expiration-fuelled takeover boom of 2009 when Schering Plough combined with Merck and Wyeth...
...“The Wyeth/Pfizer business would in some ways be a perfect strategic fit for Heinz because it is so focused in emerging markets,” Alexia Howard, analyst at Bernstein Research, said last month....
...Pfizer under Mr Kindler engineered a $68bn takeover of rival Wyeth last year to diversify its product range and mitigate the risk of a series of blockbuster drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, coming off...
...The deal could affect Wyeth’s plans to consider the acquisition of Crucell, a Dutch vaccine maker. Pfizer and Wyeth may decide that a takeover of Crucell would be too complicated....
...Crucell would offer Wyeth a chance to maintain its weight and to diversify its portfolio....
...Five banks lent Pfizer – on the basis of the combined group’s expected AA credit rating – a one-year $22.5bn bridge loan to help part-finance its $68bn takeover of Wyeth....
...The NYSE immediately halted trading in Wyeth, Jefferies and AT&T stock. Trading in all the stocks was reopened before midday in New York....
...The NYSE immediately halted trading in Wyeth, Jefferies and AT&T stock. Trading in all the stocks was Jefferies was reopened before midday in New York ....
...Günter K. Stahl is an associate professor of organisational behaviour at Insead and currently on sabbatical leave at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University...
...The biggest companies in the women's healthcare market are Schering of Germany and Wyeth of the US. However, analysts said Warner Chilcott's products were probably too small to attract these groups....
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