Eli Lilly has offered to buy biopharmaceutical company ImClone, for $6.1 billion, or $70 a share topping Bristol-Myers Squibb's offer of $62 per share, reported Reuters.
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According to the news source, ImClone has refused to comment on the proposed deal but has divulged that it is in talks with a big pharma company.
ImClone had previously rebuffed a takeover offer from Bristol-Myers Squibb, which already owns a piece of Imclone.
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