Patrik Jonsson, the president of Lilly Bio-Medicines

Who knew? Der­mi­ra’s board kept watch as its stock price tracked Eli Lil­ly’s se­cret bid­ding on a $1.1B buy­out

In just 8 days, from De­cem­ber 6 to De­cem­ber 14, the stock jumped from $7.88 to $12.70 — just un­der the ini­tial $13 bid. There was no hard news about the com­pa­ny that would ex­plain a rise like that track­ing close­ly to the bid of­fer, rais­ing the ob­vi­ous ques­tion of whether in­sid­er in­fo has leaked out to traders.

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