Celgene's Otezla Sale Shows FTC Wants Merging Companies To Ditch Marketed, Not Pipeline, Products
Executive Summary
Companies used to be able to pick which overlapping products to divest to get US Federal Trade Commission merger approval but an FTC study showed certain divestitures weren't working.
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