Can an Overthrown King Help Mylan?
Executive Summary
Mylan, one of the nation's top three generics companies, is offering to buy King Pharmaceuticals for $3.7 billion in a stock swap in order to boost its efforts in the branded pharmaceutical business. But the controversial proposal and reaction to it raises interesting questions about business models in specialty pharma, a concept that has, many ways, taken over the small-company pharma world.
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