Welcome to your Monday Biotech Deal Review for April 8, 2013! After a hiatus last week due to the holiday, this week we have a lot of activity to cover. Valeant, in particular has been quite busy, being forced to up their bid for Obagi to $24.00 in response to interest from Germany’s Merz Pharma Group. In addition, Valeant’s latest bid is already 70 percent more than Obagi’s average 20-day stock price before the takeover fight began, the highest premium for a U.S. drug-industry deal in four years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Further, the Royal Bank fo Canada has said Valeant could be willing to pay as much as $28 a share to top any new offer from Merz, pushing the premium to as high as 99 percent. Valeant has also begun an unrelated note exchange, and has separately engaged a generic manufacturer with a license agreement after Mylan’s regulatory approval of their own anti-viral acyclovir-containing Zovirax® ointment equivalent.
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