Novartis Revamps, Buys GSK Cancer Drugs, Sells Animal Health To Lilly

Novartis is overhauling its pharma business by exchanging selected assets with GlaxoSmithKline and divesting its animal health business to Eli Lilly. Worth more than $25 billion, the complex corporate deal will boost the Swiss group’s oncology unit and create a consumer health joint venture, while divesting its vaccine unit to GSK.

Novartis AG has agreed to buy GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s cancer-drug business for as much as $16 billion, form a consumer-health venture with the British drug maker and sell its animal-health unit to Eli Lilly & Co. for $5.4 billion in a keenly anticipated overhaul of the Swiss drugmaker.

Chief Executive Joe Jimenez said the changes, announced April 22, would “focus the company on leading businesses with innovative power and global scale

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