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Bain Picks Up Mitsubishi Tanabe for Over 500 Billion Yen
Mitsubishi Chemical Group said on February 7 that it will be selling its pharmaceutical arm Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma to US private equity firm Bain Capital for roughly 510 billion yen as drug R&D increasingly pivots from chemically synthesized compounds to…
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