AstraZeneca Approached Gilead For Potential Merger – Report

UK-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) is reportedly interested in a potential merger with rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) in what would be the biggest health-care deal on record.Bloomberg reported on Sunday that AstraZeneca informally contacted Gilead last month to show its interest in a possible deal. The pharmaceutical company didn’t specify terms for any transaction, which if successful would tie together two companies advancing the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.According to the report, Gilead has discussed a potential deal with advisers, but no decisions have been made on how to proceed and the companies aren’t in formal …read more

Source:: Yahoo Finance

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