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Allergan Could Pay $1 Billion for Chase Pharma

'Milestone payments' could boost deal's $125 million announced price.
By REAL MONEY
Nov 25, 2016 | 02:00 PM EST
Stocks quotes in this article: AGN, LLY, TEVA

(A longer version of this article ran at 10:30 a.m. ET on our sister site TheDeal.com, which covers the M&A industry in depth. To get great M&A coverage like this even earlier in the trading day, click here.)

By Sarah Pringle

The $125 million purchase price on a deal that Allergan (AGN) announced Monday to acquire privately held Chase Pharmaceutical Corp. could ultimately expand eight-fold to $1 billion, TheDeal has learned.

Allergan didn't disclose the value of additional potential regulatory- and sales-related milestone payments for Chase's lead candidate drug CPC-201, but Chase CEO Doug Ingram told The Deal those payments could add up to an additional $875 million.

That's good news for Chase given that Ingram said the company was only worth about $15 million a year ago.

Chase is a clinical-stage drug developer, and CPC-201 is a potential Alzheimer's disease drug. Allergan's bet on the firm comes at a time when pharmaceutical giants are struggling to find treatments for Alzheimer's disease, which affects more than 5 million people in America alone.

Just this week, Eli Lilly & Co.  (LLY) saw its shares plunge on news that its promising drug solanezumab for Alzheimer's patients with mild dementia failed to meet a late-stage clinical trial's primary endpoint.

Ingram told TheDeal that amid a "continued graveyard of failed development programs" for Alzheimer's drugs, no player looked more capable than Allergan in bringing Chase's in-development therapy to the finish line. He said that's largely why Chase opted not to run a formal auction process for the company.

For Irish-based Allergan, the deal is consistent with its "stepping stone" M&A strategy. The company has picked up several smallish early stage assets like Chase since closing the sale of its generic-drug business to Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA) in August. Following a lengthy regulatory review process, Allergan ultimately received $33.4 billion in cash and $5.4 billion in Teva stock for that deal.

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