Shire Hopes To Sow Future Deals With $50M Venture Fund
Executive Summary
Specialty drug maker Shire has quietly begun scouting deals with a brand-new $50 million venture fund, the latest of several in-house investment arms to launch with their parent company's pipelines, not profits, as the measure of their worth
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