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Novo Nordisk and Pfizer’s bidding war for Metsera escalates despite legal threats
Yahoo Finance·2025-11-05 19:52

Novo Nordisk has raised its offer to buy out obesity biotech Metsera to 10bnasabiddingwarwithPfizerintensifies.Thisisupfromthe10bn as a bidding war with Pfizer intensifies. This is up from the 8.5bn that Novo offered last week when it submitted its initial, unexpected, “unsolicited” offer. This offer shook the pharma sector after it seemed that Pfizer’s 7.3bnoffertotakeoverMetserawasallbutcertain.Underthemostrecentproposal,NovoNordiskwouldacquirealloutstandingsharesofMetserascommonstockatapriceof7.3bn offer to take over Metsera was all but certain. Under the most recent proposal, Novo Nordisk would acquire all outstanding shares of Metsera’s common stock at a price of 62.20 per share in cash, eq ...