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Bain Strikes Deal to Buy Mitsubishi Tanabe
Mitsubishi Chemical Group said on February 7 that it is divesting its pharmaceutical unit Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma to US private equity firm Bain Capital for roughly 510 billion yen.The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the…
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