Australia's CSL To Buy Talecris For US$3.1bn

August 2008 | M&A News Alert

Australia's CSL, the world's second-largest maker of blood plasma products, has agreed to purchase US pharmaceutical Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings. The company will pay US$3.1bn for North Carolina-based Talecris making it Australia's biggest acquisition by a healthcare company to date. To finance the deal, CSL raised US$1.55bn by selling stock and will pay the remainder with a combination of a loan from Merrill Lynch and cash.

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