Bristol-Myers Squibb has opted to divest big-selling psoriasis drug Otezla to smooth the passage of its $74 billion takeover of Celgene through the financial regulatory seas.
Sanofi has leapt in to buy Ablynx for €3.9 billion ($4.85bn) outbidding an offer from Novo Nordisk which the European biotech had declined two weeks ago.
After a relatively quiet 12 months for mergers and acquisitions in 2017, this year is expected to produce a bumper crop of deals between big pharma and biotech.