May 23, 2013 | News
Financial Times 20 May 2013 Actavis sought to fend off takeover threats by purchasing Dublin-based rival Warner Chilcott in a $5bn deal designed to turn it into the world’s third-largest generic drug company by sales. The agreed all-stock deal, worth $8.5bn including...
May 23, 2013 | News
Takeda Obtains Promising Vaccine Candidates Against Dengue and Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Advancing Takeda’s Commitment to Vaccines and Global Health Osaka, Japan, May 8, 2013, Deerfield, IL and Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A., May 7, 2013 – Takeda Pharmaceutical...
May 23, 2013 | News
PharmaIntellect 16 May 2013 Bayer signed an agreement Thursday to acquire 100% of the shares of Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, a privately held pharmaceutical company specializing in pharmacy-only herbal medicines. Steigerwald generated sales...
May 23, 2013 | News
The Wall Street Journal 16 May 2013 Caterpillar Inc. CAT +1.12% said Thursday that it has reduced the cost of its purchase of a Chinese mining equipment firm that prompted the U.S. machinery giant to take a big write-down following alleged accounting...
May 22, 2013 | News
Pedaily.cn 17 May 2013 According to PE Data of Zero2IPO Research Center, China’s M&A market totally had 65 M&A deals in April 2013 involving a total value of US$2.53B, among which 63 were disclosed with amount. Averagely, each M&A deal involved about...
May 22, 2013 | News
Bloomberg 16 May 2013 Sinopec Engineering Group Co. (2386), a unit of China’s biggest refiner, raised $1.8 billion in Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering this year. The Beijing-based unit of China Petrochemical Corp. sold 1.33 billion shares at HK$10.50 each,...
