{"id":122375,"date":"2025-11-08T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/122375\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:08:09","slug":"pfizer-sweetens-its-offer-for-metsera-in-bidding-war-against-novo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/122375\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer Sweetens Its Offer for Metsera in Bidding War Against Novo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/PFE:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Pfizer Inc.<\/a> agreed to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MTSR:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Metsera Inc.<\/a> for up to $10 billion, prevailing over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a> in a tumultuous bidding war after US regulatory opposition thwarted the Danish drugmaker\u2019s rival bid for the obesity drug startup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pfizer raised its offer to as much as $86.25 a share, matching a revised bid from Novo on Nov. 6. The US company agreed to pay $65.60 a share in cash and up to $20.65 a share contingent on certain milestones, Metsera said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T5DZ1ZOW0PA8\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">statementBloomberg Terminal<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pfizer Inc. agreed to buy Metsera Inc. for up to $10 billion, prevailing over Novo Nordisk A\/S in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30275,114,4756,497,16063,85,12810,46,190,37139,16062,32225,26990,544,303,2201],"class_list":["post-122375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-business","tag-deals","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-il","tag-industries","tag-israel","tag-markets","tag-metsera-inc","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-regulation","tag-startups","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}