Pfizer And Allergan To Merge, Creating World’s Largest Drug Company
By Meghna ChakrabartiPfizer And Allergan To Merge, Creating World’s Largest Drug Company
By Meghna Chakrabarti
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The drug companies Pfizer and Allergan said today that they will merge, in a nearly $160 billion deal that would create the world’s biggest drug maker, and bring Botox and Viagra under one roof.
Allergan is based in Dublin, Ireland, and the joint company could reincorporate there – making it an inversion, and the biggest inversion ever. Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with CBS News’ Jill Schlesinger to understand what’s happening.