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Novartis bought 52% stake from Nestlé for $28.1 Billion. This deal brought the total ownership of Alcon by Novartis to 77%. Beginning January 2010 Novartis formally announced it will be completing the exercise options for finishing purchasing the rest of Alcon and then promptly continue to exercise merger and takeover of Alcon. [12] [13]
Novartis plans to spin off its Alcon eye care business to shareholders and buy back up to $5 billion in stock as Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan refocuses the Swiss group on prescription drugs.
Novartis is the world's first largest in life sciences and agribusiness markets. [6] It is also the second-largest pharmaceutical company by market cap in 2019. [126] Alcon: At the time Novartis bought Alcon, they had annual sales of $6.5 billion and a net income of $2 billion. [127]
The total cost to Novartis for the 77% stake in Alcon was $38.7 billion ($168 per share). In the deal's first phase, Novartis acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestlé for $10.4 billion in July 2008.
More than two years after beginning the acquisition process, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis (NVS) said Thursday that it has finally completed the purchase of a 77% majority stake in U.S ...
1. 2015. Pfizer. Allergan, plc. 160. 206. In November 2015 Pfizer announced it would acquire Allergan, plc for $160 billion ($206 billion, adjusted for inflation). However, this deal was cancelled in April 2016 due to new US tax inversion rules. [ 12][ 13] Had this transaction been completed, this would have been the largest within this industry.
Novartis announces that it will spin-off its ophthalmology division, Alcon, into a separately-traded standalone company in order to focus on its legacy pharmaceuticals business.
[83] [84] [85] On April 6, 2016, Pfizer and Allergan terminated the merger agreement after the Obama administration and the United States Department of the Treasury introduced new laws intended to limit corporate inversions (the extent to which companies could move their headquarters overseas in order to reduce the amount of taxes they pay ...