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Deals, deals, Deals ... in a bear market - Part 54

Apologies for the tardy update Betavillers; it was a Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom yesterday so little old Betaville took a rare (no pun intended) day off.

Anyway, I see that Danaher, the US-listed conglomerate, won the auction for Abcam paying $5.7 billion for the UK headquartered but US-listed producer and distributor of protein research tools. Below is a link the press release:..

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Weekend review: Danaher, Catalent and SolGold...

Bloomberg dug out the biggest takeover scoop of the weekend.

The financial media giant revealed that Danaher Corporation, the US-listed life sciences giant, has recently expressed an interest in buying Catalent, a healthcare contract manufacturer.

Bloomberg suggests Danaher indicated it could be willing to pay a significant premium for Catalent, so the latter's shares may be sharply up on Monday...

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