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Pfizer NYC Tower Up For Sale

By George Koroneos | Published: May 11, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Pfizer’s New York tower is on the market, but the pharma giant is not planning on leaving Manhattan. The New York Times, on Tuesday, reported that the company is willing to put millions of dollars in tax breaks on the line to consolidate its New York offices. “We are looking [at selling] [...]
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Astellas Keeps After CV Therapeutics

By Cassandra Blohowiak | Published: February 27, 2009
Astellas bid for CV Therapeutics turned hostile this morning when the Japanese drug firm offered $1 billion dollars for the company directly to shareholders. The CVT board rejected Astellas’s second proposal last Friday stating that the Astellas proposal undervalued the company and is not in the best interest of the shareholders. In a press release issued this [...]
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Icahn to BMS: Offer is Inadequate

By George Koroneos | Published: September 10, 2008
In a statement to the press today, ImClone Chairman Carl Icahn said that the review committee overlooking Bristol-Myers Squibb’s offer to purchase the biotech company for $60 per share $4.5 billion just isn’t good enough. He not only accused BMS of lowballing, but also admitted that the company has been in talks with the head of [...]
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