Medeus: How To Find & Buy a Ready-Made Euro Infrastructure
Executive Summary
Apax Partners paid $120 million for Elan's European sales and marketing infrastructure--renamed Medeus--to buy into the in-licensing game with a ready-made continent-wide commercial network. Few specialty companies can match its scope. But with little or no track record and a portfolio of mostly older, sometimes off-patent drugs, Medeus may nevertheless have to work hard to convince licensors to hand over their products.
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