Daily Archives Tuesday, December 2005

Boston Scientific Rebuffed? on Guidant

Boston Scientific’s offer of a $3.4B premium to buy Guidant over J&J’s offer was initially rebuffed today by Guidant, who signalled that it was opting to stick with the newly reworked $21B+ deal with J&J. Boston Scientific clearly recognized the market value of picking up Guidant (at J&J’s expense), even with the stent divestitures that [...]