It’s all quite sat­is­fac­to­ry, mer­ci: Sanofi chair­man Serge Wein­berg shrugs off grow­ing calls for an M&A deal

Sanofi has tried at least twice to land big ac­qui­si­tions need­ed to do some­thing to ad­dress the un­der­ly­ing prob­lems that plague the French phar­ma gi­ant. They got beat out twice, once pure­ly on Pfiz­er CEO’s Ian Read’s will­ing­ness to out­bid all com­ers for Medi­va­tion and the sec­ond time af­ter Acte­lion took of­fense at some per­ceived bad be­hav­ior on Sanofi’s part. And they’ve been out in the mar­ket kick­ing tires and do­ing some road tests.

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