Vertex CEO Reshma Kewalramani (L) and executive chairman Jeffrey Leiden (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

One bid­der and a $5 hike: How Ver­tex inked $4.9B Alpine deal

Jef­frey Lei­den want­ed Alpine.

The Ver­tex chair, who had led ear­ly de­vel­op­ment of the world’s top-sell­ing med­i­cine while at Ab­bott in the 2000s, had his …

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