Keep the onc & virology business, get 100% of Eliquis, cut the shit out of personnel, sell off unneeded assets and get this ball rolling. What's the hold up?
Ian has to buy an American company. No foreign sovereignty is giving up their biggest socialized healthcare drug company supplier, for national security reasons.
This whole debacle will not go unnoticed. Ian looks weak both internally and externally. That whole gold coin story was just embarrassing. This is red meat for the wolves waiting in the shadows to pounce on his job. The next few months we will see the chess match played within the ELT. Should make for great gossip during the "summer work schedule" at HQ.
Someone might leak a negotiation of a BMS takeover to spur AstraZeneca shareholders to get worried and pressure their BOD. Right now, it seems like many AZ shareholders are holding out hope that negotiations will re-start after 3 to 6 months.