Af­ter re­sist­ing a push to the auc­tion block, Acor­da preps for a sale and shares shoot up — re­port

Over the last 8 months Acor­da $ACOR has had to lay off staffers in a painful re­struc­tur­ing as it re­act­ed to the like­ly loss of patent pro­tec­tion for its sole fran­chise drug, watched a crit­i­cal drug ap­pli­ca­tion get kicked back as in­ad­e­quate, scrapped a top pipeline ther­a­py fol­low­ing the death of a slate of pa­tients and adopt­ed a poi­son pill de­fense as a key in­vestor pushed for a sale.

But now com­pa­ny CEO Ron Co­hen may be hav­ing sec­ond thoughts about the ad­vis­abil­i­ty of a sale.

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