Brent Saunders is a flipper. Just like a real estate flipper that would flip houses a few years ago when the real estate market was hot.
So...he flipped Bausch and Lomb and sold B and L to Valeant.
He was then hired by Forest. He stated in a national meeting that "Forest is not for sale".
A month later, he announced that Forest was being sold to Actavis.
He and Paul Bisaro (at that time, CEO of Actavis) worked out a deal that Brent would run Actavis.
So Brent flipped Forest to Actavis.
So if Pfizer buys Actavis, either Brent would get the big, big, big golden parachute and leave the company.
Or Brent would convince Ian Reed to let Brent run Forest.
Which scenario would happen? That is up to Ian Reed and the leadership of Big Blue Pfizer.