CSL Makes $11.7bn Move On Vifor Pharma In Renal Disease Push

Confirming rumors of an acquisition, CSL will venture into some new territories as well as boost its renal franchise when it takes over Switzerland’s Vifor Pharma in a deal worth $11.7bn.    

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The Australian biotech leader CSL Limited is to buy Vifor Pharma Group  to beef up its renal presence and move into some adjacent therapeutic areas which, it believes, have high growth potential. The Swiss firm has recently been on an M&A spree itself, bringing more to the table for CSL in the form of Sanifit Therapeutics S.A. and Inositec AG.

Confirmation of the deal – rumors of which had been swirling in the Australian press for a week or so...

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