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Created: 2025-07-10 15:53:27 UTC

📢 In case you missed it: Merck $MRK to Acquire Verona Pharma $VRNA

💸 Total transaction value ~$10B ($107 per ADS)

🫁 Deal adds Ohtuvayre, the first novel inhaled COPD treatment in >20 years
→ approved by FDA in June 2024
 → launched August 2024 with rapid U.S. uptake; also in trials for non-CF bronchiectasis

✅ Closing expected Q4 2025

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