FTC re­view pe­ri­ods end for Ab­b­Vie-Im­muno­Gen $10.1B deal and $4B BMS-Rayze­Bio buy­out

Ab­b­Vie moved ahead with its $10.1 bil­lion ac­qui­si­tion of an­ti­body-drug con­ju­gate biotech Im­muno­Gen, while Bris­tol My­ers Squibb’s big ac­qui­si­tion of ra­dio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals biotech Rayze­Bio is like­ly on the way too, de­spite the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion’s height­ened at­ten­tion on phar­ma M&A.

Ab­b­Vie an­nounced the clo­sure of its buy on Mon­day, sev­er­al days af­ter the end of the wait­ing pe­ri­od for the FTC. The 30-day wait­ing pe­ri­od un­der the Hart-Scott-Rodi­no An­titrust Im­prove­ments Act (HSR Act) al­lowed the FTC to ob­ject to the Ab­b­Vie-Im­muno­Gen propo­si­tion un­til Feb. 7.

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