Tag: Roche
Roche To Buy GenMark For 1.8B To Add Testing Facilities
Roche announced on Monday, March 15, a deal to buy GenMark Diagnostics for roughly US$1.8 billion the latest in a wave of M&A in the sector.
The...
Turkey’s Competition Watchdog Fines Novartis & Roche
Turkey's Competition Board announced on Friday, January 22, it imposed fines on Turkish units of pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Roche for trying to popularize...
France Fines Novartis, Roche $528M For Anti-Competition Scheme
Novartis and Roche have been fined a collective $528 million by France’s anti-trust regulator for allegedly conspiring to promote the expensive eye disease treatment...
Roche Acquires Seattle DNA Sequencing Startup
Publicly-traded pharmaceutical giant Roche acquired Stratos Genomics, a Seattle DNA sequencing startup, reported GeekWire.
Founded in 2007, Stratos’ technology is called Sequencing By Expansion (SBX),...
UK: CMA clears Roche’s US$4.3B takeover of Spark, US review lags
Swiss drugmaker Roche won clearance from Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Monday for its planned US$4.3 billion takeover of gene therapy company...
US: FTC staff recommends approval of Roche deal for Spark
The Federal Trade Commission staff reviewing Roche’s plan to buy US-based gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics for $4.3 billion recommended that the deal be...
US: Roche extends US$4.3B Spark deal…again
Roche and Spark Therapeutics announced that Roche has extended the offering period of its previously announced tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding...
EU: Roche extends US$4.3B Spark tender offer again
Roche, the Switzerland-based drugmaker, announced says it has extended its US$4.3 billion offer to buy all shares of Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics Inc. from investors...
US: Roche extends Spark buyout deadline
Roche and Spark Therapeutics’ road to a US$4.3 billion merger has been a rocky one, with various delays pushing the long-gestating agreement back four...
India: High court questions regulator’s probe against Roche
The Delhi high court on Wednesday observed that an investigation initiated by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Roche Products (India) for abuse...
