Glaxo sold a European portfolio of non-core OTC products to Omega Pharma for $614 million. Device companies Zoll Medical and Cameron Health were acquired in two separate billion-dollar-plus deals. Biopharma funding reached $1 billion and device firms raised $539 million.
Exhibit 1
Top Alliances In March 2012
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