Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Shire's next deal could be "transformational" - part 3

I have just returned from a jolly nice lunch with an investment banker chum to discover that Shire has launched a $30 billion hostile takeover for US rival Baxalta - wow!

Here is a link to the press release:

http://www.investegate.co.uk/shire-plc--shp-/prn/shire-proposes-combination-with-baxalta/20150804123000P8565/

Regular readers of this blog should have picked up on the hints I have been dropping on little old Betaville that Shire, led by ambitious chief executive Flemming Ornskov, has been plotting a mega deal over the last few months. Here are the links:

http://betaville123.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/rare-alert-shires-next-deal-likely-to.html

and here:

http://betaville123.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/rare-alert-shires-next-deal-could-be.html

However, I have to admit that perhaps there is slight egg on face for me. Although I mentioned on Tip TV yesterday morning that Shire is still looking at acquisitions and had something up its sleeve, I also said the potential transactions were perhaps going to be smaller than previously attempted because pulling off larger takeovers can be more difficult.

Indeed, in case you don't recall, I have revealed that Shire has approached both US-based BioMarin and Switzerland-based Actelion in recent months. Shire, though, got nowhere because it was unable to offer a price acceptable to both these rare disease pharma companies.

And I have to breathe a sigh of relief as I had been trying to stack up another tale about Shire going for a fresh acquisition target but in the end decided against running the story. I mean, I would have looked like a right plonker had I run that jackanory ahead of Shire launching its bid for Baxalta today.

Still, I will keep the identity of that target under wraps for the moment. Followers of M&A in this sector should know by now that these takeover situations can turn on six pence and often acquirers work on multiple large deals at any one time.

Remember Teva's hostile approach for US-based Mylan? The Israeli company spent months stalking Mylan only for Teva to buy Allergan's generics business when Mylan threatened to initiate a "Stichting" defence...
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