Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim seek CCI’s clearance for global asset swap deal worth $25 billion
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Once completed, the $41 billion France-based
The companies filed their applications to CCI late last week, stating that their mutual transfers, of both the consumer healthcare business and the animal health business, will not considerably put an unfavourable effect on the competition that exists in any of the potential relevant markets in the country.
Now it’s up to the commission to review if this swapping will cause any undesirable impact on the competition in India, a market where both these companies have been progressively growing their businesses over the last few years.
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Swapping of assets is a new trend that one can see in the global healthcare businesses. In 2014, the commission had cleared a three-way deal between Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly. The deal enabled Swiss-based Novartis to acquire the oncology assets of GSK, based in Britain; in return of this, GSK acquired its vaccines business. The deal also led to a JV for consumer healthcare products, and GSK selling its animal healthcare arm to Indiana, US-based Eli Lilly.
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