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SERB And BTG SP – A Simple Jigsaw

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The merging of the capabilities of Belgium’s SERB and the UK’s BTG Specialty Pharma could produce the world’s biggest antidotes manufacturer.

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After a process lasting nearly a year and management presentations to multiple potential buyers, Boston Scientific CEO Mike Mahoney settled on SERB Specialty Pharmaceuticals, a Belgian company with a French culture and French CEO in Jeremie Urbain, as the company to buy out BTG plc’s Specialty Pharma business.

Despite its francophone roots, SERB insists on English as the day-to-day business language, which is an acknowledgement of its global...

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