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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO) is in advanced talks to acquire assets to bolster its struggling biopharma business, its chief executive said on Monday after the drugmaker announced it had hired an AstraZeneca executive to head the unit. Novo, best known for its diabetes drugs, has been looking for biopharma assets after losing out to French rival Sanofi (SASY.PA) in the chase for Belgian biotech company Ablynx ABLX.BR in January. Sales at Novo’s biopharma unit fell 16 percent last year and the Danish drugmaker said on Monday it has hired AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) head of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, Ludovic Helfgott, to head the business from next April.
Novo hopes to close the deal to buy biopharma assets this year, CEO Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen told Reuters, but declined to provide more detail on the potential deal, “It is not always easy to predict when a transaction goes through, but we are in enough ongoing discussions that it might be possible this year if all goes well,” Jorgensen said in a phone interview, Novo has previously said it was looking for biopharma deals and has earlier this year secured the global license for U.S, rose gold peridot swarovski double cufflinks biotech company EpiDestiny’s sickle cell disease (SCD) program..
Novo’s biopharmaceutical business comprises its human growth hormone as well as its hemophilia franchises, which are facing tough competition from Roche’s (ROG.S) Hemlibra drug. “It will take some years to get back to organic growth, so we are looking at accelerating this by buying up,” Jorgensen said, adding that the firm was also looking to make acquisitions outside hemophilia and growth disorders. Jorgensen said Novo had been “very close” to securing another biopharma deal but it fell through as the Danish company had not been convinced of the quality, without giving details about the deal.
“We are not desperate, we are disciplined,” he said, He acknowledged that Novo’s biopharma rose gold peridot swarovski double cufflinks unit faced commercial challenges in the short term but said it was looking to grow organically by launching its existing products in more markets including China and developing the drugs it has in its pipeline, Helfgott will replace Jesper Brandgaard, who will retire in April next year after 20 years at the Danish company, Brandgaard was also Novo CFO until he stepped down from that role earlier this year..
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) saw its shares drop on Monday as fallout from the disappearance of a Saudi journalist spread to the Japanese conglomerate, whose nearly $100 billion Vision Fund is almost half financed by Saudi Arabia. SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest technology investment vehicle, and represents one of a number of deals group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has sealed with the Saudi government. But the oil-rich kingdom has found itself threatened with “severe punishment” by U.S. President Donald Trump over the disappearance this month of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist critical of Saudi authorities. Turkey said Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, while Saudi Arabia said the journalist left unharmed.
Concern over the disappearance has seen a growing number of attendees pull out of the “Davos in the Desert” investment conference, which has become the biggest show for investors to promote Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reform vision, With SoftBank’s Saudi ties causing jitters, the share sell-off is “more psychological than anything related to worries on its fundamentals,” said Makoto Kikuchi, chief executive of Myojo Asset Management, SoftBank stock was down almost 8 percent rose gold peridot swarovski double cufflinks in early afternoon trade, With further investor concerns including a Sino-U.S, trade dispute and possible slowdown in China's economy, the benchmark Nikkei share price index .N225 was down 1.7 percent, Meanwhile, crude oil prices rose as concerns over the missing journalist stoked worries about supply..
A SoftBank spokesman declined to confirm whether SoftBank executives will attend next week’s conference. Son, Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra and ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars were listed as attendees on a conference webpage that is no longer available. Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] - in which SoftBank is the largest shareholder - said last week he would no longer attend. Saudi Arabia also has its own investment in the ride-hailing firm. Under Son, SoftBank built its global influence through tech investments and raised over $93 billion last year to create its Vision Fund - with $45 billion coming from Saudi Arabia.
That tech exposure saw SoftBank caught up in rose gold peridot swarovski double cufflinks a broader sell-off of technology stocks, with Monday’s decline exacerbating a two-week slide in SoftBank shares that is nearing 20 percent, Ties to the Gulf Kingdom extend beyond tech investment, SoftBank and Saudi Arabia said in March they would build the world’s biggest solar power generation project, The kingdom has appointed Son as an advisor for its planned $500 billion NEOM high-tech city, and in October last year, it said it was considering selling a large stake in Saudi Electricity Co to the Vision Fund..