Jazz CEO Bruce Cozadd campaigned for 6 months to buy GW Pharma. A 90% premium sealed the deal — along with $17.6M in ‘retention’ incentives
Jazz CEO Bruce Cozadd didn’t beat around the bush.
In his first video meeting with GW Pharma chief Justin Gover last July 8, he offered to pay $172 a share to get the company, which had beaten the odds in getting its remarkable cannabinoid drug Epidiolex across the regulatory finish line for epilepsy. GW’s stock closed at $129 that day.
Cozadd had already done his homework on the financing to make sure he could swing it the way he wanted. He just needed to do some due diligence before making the non-binding bid firm.
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