Valeant, Ackman make $45.6B Allergan bid

Published April 23, 2014 12:40am ET



NEW YORK (AP) — Valeant Pharmaceuticals and activist investor Bill Ackman have unveiled details of their offer to buy Botox maker Allergan, proposing a cash-and-stock deal that could be worth about $45.6 billion.

If an acquisition happens, it would give Valeant an array of other cosmetic and eye drugs and add to a string of more than 50 acquisitions that have made it one of Canada’s largest drugmakers.

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