Deals Of The Week: Pfizer Management Updates Thoughts On Split

Pfizer top management hasn’t yet decided whether it will divide in two or stop at a “virtual split.” Plus updates on Lundbeck/Otsuka, Shire/SARcode, AstraZeneca/Actavis, and more.

Pfizer Inc.’s Chairman and CEO Ian Read doesn’t make himself available for interviews readily, so a March 26 note from Sanford Bernstein’s pharma analyst Tim Anderson caught our attention. The note describes a teleconference call Anderson held with Pfizer’s top management team, including Read and R&D chief Mikael Dolsten.

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