Pfizer To Buy King Pharma For $3.6 Billion To Boost Pain Franchise

Pfizer's acquisition of King Pharmaceuticals will be the Big Pharma's first "bolt-on" purchase since its mega acquisition of Wyeth in 2009 and fits neatly into a strategy it articulated to a jittery Wall Street for months ("Pfizer & Wyeth: Is Mega Merger A Strategic Move Or Desperate Play?" "The Pink Sheet," Jan. 26, 2009.