(An­oth­er) ac­tivist at­tack on Alex­ion, as Paul Singer-found­ed hedge fund calls for biotech to sell it­self

In De­cem­ber, Alex­ion was forced to is­sue a high­ly un­usu­al state­ment: No, they told in­vestors, the com­pa­ny is not for sale and, no, they have not re­ceived any of­fers.

“It is high­ly un­usu­al, if not un­prece­dent­ed, for a bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny of our size and ma­tu­ri­ty to proac­tive­ly launch a sale process,” they wrote. “We do not be­lieve this ap­proach is the best path for dri­ving share­hold­er val­ue.”

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