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Pfizer Inc. / Warner-Lambert Company

2000 · Acquisition/Merger · $90.0B · Complete

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Dec 16, 1999 Pfizer Inc. SC 14D-1 Filing Neutral

Pfizer Inc. commenced its tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Warner-Lambert Company common stock.

Feb 08, 2000 The Washington Post Neutral

Pfizer agreed to buy Warner-Lambert for about $91.5 billion in stock and assumed debt, ending a three-month hostile takeover battle and creating the world…

Jun 19, 2000 Federal Trade Commission Press Release Bearish

FTC Order Clears Way for $90 Billion Merger of Pfizer Inc. and Warner-Lambert Company.

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Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert in a $90 billion all-stock merger, ending a hostile takeover battle that began in November 1999. The deal gave Pfizer full ownership of Lipitor (atorvastatin), then the world's best-selling drug, along with Warner-Lambert's Parke-Davis pharmaceutical and consumer health portfolios.

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