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Biotech / Medical : Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals plc

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From: Carey Thompson4/7/2014 8:22:54 PM
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Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals And Questcor Pharmaceuticals Enter Into Definitive Merger Agreement


# Questcor Shareholders Receive $30.00 in Cash and 0.897 Mallinckrodt Shares for Each Share of Questcor Common Stock They Own

# Combined Company Expected to Have Significantly Increased Scale, Revenues, Profitability and Cash Flow to Deliver Sustainable Growth Built on a More Diversified Product Platform of Novel Therapeutics

# Transaction Expected to Be Immediately Accretive to Mallinckrodt's Fiscal Year 2014 Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share; Expected to Be Significantly Accretive to Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share in Fiscal Year 2015

DUBLIN and ANAHEIM, Calif., April 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mallinckrodt plc (NYSE: MNK), a leading global specialty pharmaceuticals company, and Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(NASDAQ: QCOR), a high-growth biopharmaceutical company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Mallinckrodt will acquire Questcor in a transaction valued at approximately $5.6 billion. The transaction was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies. Subject to customary closing conditions, the transaction is currently expected to be completed in the third calendar quarter of 2014.

http://www.mallinckrodt.com/News/

"Looks like a good deal of shareholders of Questcor. I await a year's results before I judge if this is a good deal for MNK shareholders."
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