Thursday, May 10, 2007

Actavis chairman offers $4.5 billion for drug company

(Reuters) - The offer to take the company private follows the group's recent failure to clinch two major acquisitions, which would have made it one of the world's top three makers of generic medicines.

Actavis said in a statement that Novator, run by Bjorgolfur Bjorgolfsson, intended to offer 0.98 euros per share for all the A class shares in the firm, valuing the company at around 3.3 billion euros .


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