A bumper month of M&A activity in March gave way to one with just three acquisitions in April—albeit two of those were multi-billion dollar deals.
There was nothing on the scale of Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) $43 billion buy of Seagen, which was announced in March, but another US pharma giant did spend big, in the shape of Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK).
As well as Merck's $10.8 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences, UK pharma major GSK (LSE: GSK) announced a significant deal of its own, buying up Bellus Health for some $2 billion.
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