AbbVie outdoes rumored J&J bid with $21bn Pharmacyclics buy
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
AbbVie swooped in to buy Pharmacyclics for $21bn on 4 March after several days of speculation that the Sunnyvale, California-based biopharmaceutical firm would be acquired by its Imbruvica (ibrutinib) development partner Johnson & Johnson for as much as $19bn.
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