European Notebook: Data Transparency And Adaptive Licensing Move Forward

More clinical trials move to Denmark, Sanofi’s Viehbacher moves to Boston, and analysts suggest thwarted Pfizer’s next strategic move may be to use contingent value rights in a future attempt for AstraZeneca, plus more in this month’s notebook.

Pfizer Inc. has walked away from AstraZeneca PLC – for now – but the world’s biggest drug maker can make another offer later this year under U.K. takeover laws, which prohibit any re-engagement for three months from May 26. What happens after that will depend on how AstraZeneca's drug research fares in the meantime ([A#14140526001]).

The British pure pharma needs to give investors a reason to believe it deserves to go it alone. It used...

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