Deals Of The Week: Sunovion/Elevation, Janssen/Genmab, Alnylam/Monsanto
Executive Summary
With Roche’s Pascal Soriot set to become AstraZeneca’s CEO on Oct. 1, Soriot’s success in merging Genentech into Roche may open up AZ’s business development strategy to large-scale M&A.
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