Valeant Buyout Brings Marketing Clout To Sprout And Addyi
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Canada’s M&A specialist agrees to pay $1bn for the female sexual desire drug just two days after its FDA approval, taking the North Carolina firm in-house as a subsidiary focused on global registration of Addyi.
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