A private equity consortium of Warburg Pincus and Advent International is said to be in advanced talks to acquire medical device maker Baxter International’s biopharma...
16.12.2018
- Shortly after Environment Canada issued a warning against the use of Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder, citing health concerns, the publication of a Reuters special report...
11.04.2016
- Two fires that broke out at the respective refineries of LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil in the Houston, Texas, area on Apr. 7 and 8 are believed to have caused extensive damage, but...
18.03.2016
- Air Products & Chemicals is in advanced talks to sell its performance materials business to Evonik Industries, news agencies have reported. A deal for the business, called Versum...
16.03.2016
- AstraZeneca shareholders are said to be questioning the £8.4 million pay package awarded to CEO executive Pascal Soriot last year after he successfully deflected a hostile bid from...
11.01.2016
- Sanofi has handed back rights to the inhaled insulin treatment Afrezza to US drug development company MannKind. Sales of Afrezza, which launched in the US in February last year...
23.12.2015
- Bayer is likely to seek a major life sciences M&A deal in the next few years, banking sources have told the news agency Reuters. The German group’s absence from a recent wave of...
28.10.2015
- Just as analysts were talking up an acquisition by DuPont of the agricultural business US rival Dow Chemical may put up for sale, the company’s interim CEO, Edward Breen, appears...
