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Novartis to prepare the sale of its Roche stake: Sonntagszeitung

April 25, 2016
Life sciences

Drugmaker Novartis aims to dispose of a 13.5 billion Swiss franc ($13.8 billion) stake in its local rival Roche and has already hired banks to support the selling process, a Swiss paper reported on Sunday.

The world’s biggest prescription drugmaker started building up the stake – worth 33 percent of Roche’s voting shares – as a basis for a possible merger more than a decade ago, but the plan never materialized.

Novartis plans to sell the stake in a so-called order book process, having banks collect purchase offers within a predefined price range from selected investors, weekly Sonntagszeitung said, citing board and banking sources.

A Novartis spokesman declined to comment on the report.

By Kirsti Knolle

Source: Reuters

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