Pharmaceuticals
Valeant Pharma raises Salix bid to $11.1 bn
16 Mar 2015
Valeant Pharma plans to raise bid for Salix
14 Mar 2015
Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc is planning to raise its bid for Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd, after Endo International Plc tabled a counter-bid this week
Endo International tables $11.2 bn bid for Salix Pharmaceuticals
12 Mar 2015
Ireland-based specialty healthcare company Endo International yesterday offered to buy Salix Pharmaceuticals for around $11.2 billion, trumping an agreed bid by Valeant Pharmaceuticals
AbbVie to acquire onclology drugmaker Pharmacyclics for $21 bn
05 Mar 2015
The takeover will give AbbVie access to one of the world's top-selling drugs to fight blood cancer, Imbruvica, which is expected to generate $1 billion in revenue this year
Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi pips Mukesh Ambani to become richest Indian
05 Mar 2015
Dilip Shanghvi, who is also the world’s richest pharmaceutical billionaire, added $4.5 billion to his fortune this year, making him fourth-wealthiest in Asia and 37th in the world
Sun Pharma to buy Glaxo’s Australian opiates business
03 Mar 2015
The deal comes as Sun wraps up the last leg of its $ 4-billion proposal to buy troubled generic drugs maker Ranbaxy in India
Sun’s Shanghvi reported in talks with Tanti for Suzlon stake
13 Feb 2015
Sun Pharmaceuticals founder Dilip Shanghvi and Tulsi Tanti of Suzlon Energy are in advanced talks for a multi-layer deal to eventually give the pharma baron's family a stake in the debt-laden wind turbine maker
Mylan to buy Famy women’s healthcare business
03 Feb 2015
Sun Pharma buyout of Ranbaxy gets conditional US nod
31 Jan 2015
Fearing that the $4-billion deal would be anti-competitive, the FTC has stipulated that Sun sell its interest in a generic anti-bacterial medicine
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