9 September 2016Americas

FTC orders Mylan to divest two generics

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced yesterday that it has approved a final order in Mylan’s $7.2 billion acquisition of Meda, a Swedish drug maker, deciding that the activity would be anticompetitive.

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