{"id":7217,"date":"2016-04-28T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/sanofi-launches-9-3-billion-fight-for-u-s-cancer-firm-medivation\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:41:39","slug":"sanofi-launches-9-3-billion-fight-for-u-s-cancer-firm-medivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/28\/sanofi-launches-9-3-billion-fight-for-u-s-cancer-firm-medivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanofi launches $9.3 billion fight for U.S. cancer firm Medivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/frances-sanofi-makes-9-3-billion-bid-u-061827339--finance.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-04-28T101927Z_3_LYNXNPEC3R0AV_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE-SANOFI.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"French multinational pharmaceutical company SANOFI logo seen at their headquater in Paris\" align=\"left\" title=\"French multinational pharmaceutical company SANOFI logo seen at their headquater in Paris\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>By Ben Hirschler and Leigh Thomas LONDON\/PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; French drugmaker Sanofi went public with a $9.3 billion offer to buy Medivation on Thursday, setting up what could be a lengthy takeover fight after the U.S. cancer firm rebuffed its approaches. The decision to target Medivation marks a return to the biotech takeover trail for Sanofi, which is looking to new cancer treatments to bolster its portfolio and help offset declining sales of mainstay diabetes drug Lantus. Sanofi&#8217;s non-binding proposal is to buy Medivation for $52.50 per share in cash, representing a 50 percent premium over the San Francisco-based firm&#8217;s two-month volume-weighted average share price prior to takeover rumors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Hirschler and Leigh Thomas LONDON\/PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; French drugmaker Sanofi went public with a $9.3 billion offer to buy Medivation on Thursday, setting up what could be a lengthy takeover fight after the U.S. cancer firm rebuffed its approaches. The decision to target Medivation marks a return to the biotech takeover trail for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-04-28T101927Z_3_LYNXNPEC3R0AV_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE-SANOFI.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}