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AVXS Avexis, Inc. (delisted)

217.83
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type
Avexis, Inc. (delisted) NASDAQ:AVXS NASDAQ Common Stock
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 217.83 9.50 217.96 0 01:00:00

Novartis Buying AveXis for $8.7 Billion -- Deal Digest

09/04/2018 5:00pm

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   By Cara Lombardo 
 

ACQUIRER: Switzerland-based Novartis AG (NVS)

 

TARGET: Illinois-based AveXis Inc. (AVXS)

 

PRICE: $8.7 billion in cash. Novartis will pay AveXis shareholders $218 a share, about an 88% premium to AveXis's Friday closing price.

 

RATIONALE: Novartis is expanding its bet on gene therapy and hoping a promising drug AveXis is developing for therapies aimed at spinal muscular atrophy will become a blockbuster.

 

STATUS: Both companies' boards have unanimously approved the deal agreement.

 

EXPECTED CLOSE: Mid-2018.

 

STOCK MOVES: AveXis shares are up 77% midday Monday. Novartis shares trading in New York rose 0.9%.

 

Write to Cara Lombardo at cara.lombardo@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 09, 2018 11:45 ET (15:45 GMT)

Copyright (c) 2018 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

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