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Johnson & Johnson Nearing Deal to Buy Cancer Drug Maker Pharmacyclics

by Vishnuprasad on Mar 6 2015 7:58 PM

 Johnson & Johnson Nearing Deal to Buy Cancer Drug Maker Pharmacyclics
The Financial Times on Wednesday reported that Johnson & Johnson is close to buying cancer drug maker Pharmacyclics Inc in the coming days.
A bid from J&J is expected to value Pharmacyclics near its $17.5 billion market value or at a premium, FT said. Shares of Pharmacyclics, which markets blood cancer drug Imbruvica with J&J's Janssen unit, increased about 3 percent in extended trading.

Pharmacyclics has earlier said that sales of Imbruvica, which has U.S. approvals for four forms of blood cancer, are expected to touch $1 billion in the United States this year.

Bloomberg reported last month that Pharmacyclics was mulling a sale and had attracted the interest of J&J and Novartis AG. Any interest from J&J would be logical, considering its already established relationship with Pharmacyclics, experts in the industry said.



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