Swiss Company to Buy Canadian Drug Maker
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The Swiss health care company Galenica said it agreed to buy Aspreva of Canada for $915 million to expand its drug portfolio and distribution.
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Roche Holding AG  has agreed to  buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc  for $3.4 billion to  boost its diagnostics business, the Swiss drugmaker said on  Tuesday, raising its earlier bid.
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Swiss biotech firm Serono SA, which earlier Thursday agreed to sell a majority stake in the company to German drugmaker Merck KGaA for $13.31 billion, said its oral cladribine treatment for multiple sclerosis has received "fast-track" status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Merck agreed to pay a Swiss company, Addex Pharmaceuticals, as much as $702 million to help develop a new schizophrenia drug.
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Canada is poised to become the first country to endorse a cannabis-based medicine after issuing final terms for the approval of a painkiller for multiple sclerosis patients.
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Bain Capital and TPG Capital have agreed to buy Quintiles Transnational, one of the biggest managers of drug trials, for more than $3 billion, people briefed on the transaction told DealBook.
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Perrigo Co., a generic drugmaker, has agreed to buy Israel&#39;s Agis Industries Ltd. in a deal valued at $818 million, the two companies said Monday.
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The Perrigo Company, the world's largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and manufacturer of prescription generic drugs.
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FRANKFURT/ZURICH  - Germany drugmaker Merck KGaA   MRCG.DE unveiled a surprise 16.6-billion-Swiss franc ($13.3   billion) deal on Thursday to buy Swiss biotech firm Serono,   creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.
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Diversified manufacturer 3M Co  said on Thursday it has agreed to buy a Brazilian maker of orthodontic products for an undisclosed amount.
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The cancer diagnostic equipment maker is expected to announce that it will acquire Spring Bioscience, a developer of antibodies, for $28.9 million in cash.
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The price for Onex Corp., Canada's biggest buyout firm, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to buy Raytheon Co.'s aircraft unit is about $3 billion, a person with knowledge of the agreement said.
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Serono SA , one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, was bought yesterday by German chemical giant Merck KGaA in a deal worth more than $13 billion.
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Belgian drugmaker UCB UCBBt.BR has   agreed to buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE for around   $5.6 billion in shares and cash, in the third major drug sector   transaction in Germany in five days.
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In a surprise attempt by a Cambridge biotechnology company to trump a takeover bid by one of its neighbors, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. yesterday said it had reached a $515 million deal to buy a small Canadian drug firm that Genzyme Corp. has been trying to buy since late last month.
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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products
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Swiss biotech company Addex  Pharmaceuticals SA  could receive more than $700  million from Merck & Co Inc  for a licensing deal on its  ADX63365 drug for schizophrenia, it said on Thursday.