No­vo Nordisk tries to tack­le Abl­ynx and bring it in­to the fold with a $3B buy­out of­fer, but the biotech keeps say­ing no

Play­ing a hot hand with a promis­ing late-stage as­set and a new­ly com­plet­ed $200 mil­lion IPO, Abl­ynx has waved away two bids by No­vo Nordisk to ac­quire the com­pa­ny for a hefty pre­mi­um with a bid of up to $3.1 bil­lion.

But No­vo isn’t tak­ing no for an an­swer.

The Dan­ish bio­phar­ma com­pa­ny says it’s go­ing pub­lic with its of­fer in an at­tempt to put pres­sure on the biotech to start some se­ri­ous ne­go­ti­a­tions. And No­vo says it’s not just in­ter­est­ed in capla­cizum­ab, which is be­ing de­vel­oped for an ul­tra rare blood clot­ting dis­or­der. The com­pa­ny wants to swal­low Abl­ynx whole, tak­ing over the en­tire pipeline and keep­ing the Eu­ro­pean op­er­a­tions Abl­ynx has built up in Bel­gium as it ad­vanced its an­ti­body tech­nol­o­gy.

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