Eye On The Prize: For $8.7 Billion, Valeant Will Acquire Bausch & Lomb
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
As with its Medicis buyout in 2012, Valeant is acquiring another company to serve essentially as a therapeutic division within the specialty pharma the Canadian firm is cobbling together from relentless M&A activity. Buying B&L will increase Valeant’s eye care holdings substantially.
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