Depomed paying $1.05bn for Janssen's US Nucynta rights
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Executive Summary
Newark, California-based Depomed will pay Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals subsidiary $1.05bn to buy the US rights for all approved formulations of the pain drug Nucynta (tapentadol), which Janssen licensed in 2003 and co-developed with Grunenthal.
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