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Surprise: AstraZeneca's $39B Alexion buy clears a newly vigilant FTC without a hitch

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  • cafead   Apr 18, 2021 at 12:22: AM
via Just as pharma watchers were bracing themselves for the brunt of renewed antitrust scrutiny around large biopharma transactions, AstraZeneca’s mega-acquisition of Alexion Pharma sailed through the much-dreaded review unscathed.

In an anticlimactic announcement Friday, AZ said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared the $39 billion deal first unveiled in December.

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