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The banker allegedly shared details of a series of multibillion-dollar buyouts by companies including AbbVie, GSK and Pfizer.
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These deals radically reshaped the biopharma world, either by one vaccine rival absorbing another, a Big Pharma doubling down after another failed acquisition or, in the case of Pfizer and Novo, two heavyweights duking it out over a hot obesity biotech.
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