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Pharmexa and Affitech to Combine Operations to Create a New Antibody Therapeutics Company
March 18th, 2009
Pharmexa A/S and Affitech AS announced that they have entered into a conditional agreement to merge the two companies by means of a share for share acquisition by Pharmexa A/S of the private Norwegian company, Affitech AS. The purpose of the merger is to transform Pharmexa from a cancer and infectious disease vaccine business into a company focused on the research and development of human antibody therapeutic drugs. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Pharmexa will offer to acquire 100% of the outstanding and issued share capital of Affitech AS in exchange for newly issued shares in Pharmexa. On completion of the transaction, Affitech shareholders will own...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-18)
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