(BFW)Roche Agrees to Buy InterMune in $8.3b Transaction-->38% premium


BFW 08/24 16:07 Roche Agrees to Buy Intermune in $8.3b Transaction
BN 08/24 16:05 *ROCHE AGREES TO BUY INTERMUNE IN $8.3B TRANSACTION

MORE: Roche Agrees to Buy InterMune in $8.3b Transaction
2014-08-24 16:17:45.71 GMT


By Andrea Snyder
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Transaction to be neutral to core
EPS in 2015, accretive from 2016 onwards.
* Transaction to close this year
* InterMune board recommends holders tender shrs to Roche
* Offer represents premium of 38% to InterMune’s closing price
on Aug. 22
* Citi is financial adviser to Roche; Centerview Partners,
Goldman Sachs financial advisers to InterMune
* NOTE: InterMune’s lead medicine pirfenidone approved for
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in EU, Canada, under
regulatory review in U.S.
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