Pfizer Sets New Biotech M&A Record
Executive Summary
Pfizer's proposed acquisition of Rinat Neuroscience is the costliest private biotech purchase yet--it paid $500 million in cash for the CNS play. What's more extraordinary still is that the most valuable asset at Rinat is pre-clinical.
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