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Sanofi-Aventis and Merck & Co. to Create a Global Leader in Animal Health

March 9, 2010 | Natasha Alperowicz

Sanofi-Aventis (Paris) and Merck & Co., have announced that Sanofi-Aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial unit with Intervet/Schering-Plough (Boxmeer, the Netherlands), Merck's animal health business, to create a global leader in animal...

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Lonza Forms Alliance and Acquires Stake in U.S. Drug Discovery Tech Firm

Lonza says it has signed an agreement with drug discovery technology company Odyssey Thera (San Ramon, CA) to make Odyssey Thera’s proprietary protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) technology, and Odyssey Thera has granted to Lonza an option to...

Bayer MaterialScience Acquires Artificial Muscle Inc., an Electroactive Polymers Business

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has acquired Artificial Muscle Inc., (AMI; Sunnyvale, CA), a leader in the field of electroactive polymers for the consumer electronics industry. Financial details were not disclosed. AMI polymers are used in the development...

Weekly Round-Up: Dow Moving Forward

In a week in which Dow Chemical agreed to sell its Styron unit to private equity firm Bain Capital, Dow CEO Andrew Liveris, sat down for a Q&A with CW. He discussed the company's challenging 2009 and its future. Dow wasn't the only company looking to the...

Banker: 'Ingredients in Place' for Major M&A Rebound

M&A activity will increase during 2010 after a down year in 2009, Tim Wilding, co-head/industrials at Oppenheimer Fund (New York) told an audience at a Chemical Marketing & Economics (CM&E) Group luncheon yesterday. "I think all the...

Lanxess to Buy Rubber Chemicals Firm?

Negotiations are under way for Lanxess to acquire Eliokem....

LyondellBasell Board Rejects Reliance Industries' Bid

The board of LyondellBasell Industries has rejected Reliance Industries' bid for a controlling stake that valued LyondellBasell at $14.5 billion, sources say. The board favors a competing reorganization plan developed by LyondellBasell management and backed...

CF Industries Ups Bid for Terra, Topping Yara's Offer

CF Industries has raised its offer to acquire Terra Industries, to $47.40/share, topping Yara International's offer of $41.1/share that was announced last month. The new CF offer values Terra at about $4.72 billion based on the company's outstanding shares as...

Solutia Issues Debt, Refinances Credit, to Help Fund Acquisition (Update)

Solutia will issue $300 million in new senior debt in a public offering, the company announced today. The debt, which will be due in 2020, will be used to help fund the acquisition of solar cell encapsulant maker Etimex Solar, which was announced yesterday...

Merck KGaA to Acquire Millipore for $7.2 Billion

Merck KGaA and life sciences company Millipore (Billerica, MA) say they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of Millipore for $107/share in cash, or a total transaction value including net debt...

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