Alexion Buying Synageva For $230 A Share; Stock Slips

By | May 6, 2015

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Big-cap biotech Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) agreed to pay $8.4 billion in cash and stock for fellow rare-disease specialist Synageva BioPharma (GEVA) Wednesday, which at $230 a share was more than twice Synageva’s closing price. Alexion stock dipped and Synageva soared in early trading. Alexion agreed to pay $115 in cash and 0.6581 Alexion share for every Synageva share, in a bid to diversify from its sole marketed product, Soliris. Alexion is Scalper1 News

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