Posts tagged: Roche

Roche in talks to buy Roivant Sciences drug for $7 billion, reveals The Wall Street Journal

Friday, 14 July 2023, 9:37 am

Hacks at The Wall Street Journal landed a decent scoop overnight about Switzerland's Roche talks to buy a stomach drug from Roivant Sciences, the US-listed biotechnology group.

According to the WSJ report, Roche is looking to pay around $7 billion for drug, so no wonder Roivant's shares are up amost 16pc in the pre-market as the market capitlisation of the company is just under $9 billion...

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Back on Tip TV talking about Henderson Group, Molson Coors and Illumina

Monday, 3 October 2016, 1:48 pm

I have pasted a link to today's Tip TV session below for avid followers who failed to tune in for this morning's banter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp6YxOLwrb8

UPDATE: Apologies - in today's session I refer to the speculation around a potential bid from Roche for Illumina valuing the business at $25 billion but in fact what I meant to say was $35 billion. ..

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Roche said to have rekindled interest in BioMarin Pharmaceutical - sources - part 2

Thursday, 21 July 2016, 9:46 pm

I see Bloomberg was today badgering Dr Severin Schwan, the Roche chief executive, into providing a denial to my BioMarin story from a few weeks ago.

According to the Bloomberg story I read today, Dr Schwan said Roche was looking at small to medium-sized acquistions although he believes biotech valuations are "too high" even after the recent market correction...

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Roche said to have rekindled interest in BioMarin Pharmaceutical - sources

Wednesday, 6 July 2016, 12:00 am

Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche has once again been studying a multi-billon dollar purchase of American rare disease specialist BioMarin Pharmaceutical, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

I understand that, so far, the majority of work and analysis on BioMarin has been carried out by Roche's own executives, led by Boris Zaitra, head of M&A...

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