Pfiz­er bags Medi­va­tion buy­out with blowout $14B cash of­fer

Pfiz­er $PFE has struck a deal to buy Medi­va­tion $MD­VN at a price CEO David Hung has been look­ing for. The two com­pa­nies an­nounced Mon­day morn­ing that the phar­ma gi­ant will pay $81.50 a share — about $14 bil­lion — for Medi­va­tion, all of it in cold, hard cash. That’s far more than the $9.3 bil­lion of­fer Sanofi used to get the auc­tion start­ed.

Medi­va­tion closed Fri­day with a mar­ket cap of $11.1 bil­lion, giv­ing the com­pa­ny a big pre­mi­um to boast about to share­hold­ers. Sanofi $SNY last bid $58 a share in cash and an ex­tra $3 CVR for Medi­va­tion, which has con­sis­tent­ly re­ject­ed the phar­ma com­pa­ny’s of­fers as gross­ly in­ad­e­quate. A swirl of ru­mors has al­so put Mer­ck $MRK, Cel­gene $CELG, Gilead $GILD and oth­ers at the bar­gain­ing ta­ble as well.

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