What's tak­ing the FTC so long? Roche won't say, but in­sists it will bag Spark on time — de­spite third de­lay

Roche is de­lay­ing its buy­out of Spark Ther­a­peu­tics for a third time, giv­ing it­self one last chance to com­plete the deal with­in the first half of 2019.

When the Swiss phar­ma gi­ant an­nounced in late April it was with­draw­ing a Pre­merg­er No­ti­fi­ca­tion and Re­port Form once again, it ex­pect­ed to re­file the doc­u­ments around May 9. But it now wants to push the re­fil­ing day back two weeks, set­ting May 23 as the new go time.

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