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Medicis and Valeant, When Both Companies Rise on a Merger

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

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Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. (NYSE: MRX) is seeing its shares surging on news that it will be acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX). What is interesting here is that Valeant is seeing its shares on the rise as well, when most acquiring companies see their shares drop when they make an acquisition.

The terms of the deal call for $44.00 per share of Medicis in an all cash transaction. This transaction values Medicis at roughly $2.6 billion, and it has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

Today’s merger is a 39% premium being paid for Medicis after its closing price of $31.56 on Friday. Medicis has traded in a 52-week trading range of $29.76 to $40.10. Medicis has been public nearly 20 years and this gets the stock near an all-time high.

The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2013 and the companies claim that cost synergies should run at least $225 million per year within six months of closing.

Medicis shares are trading up almost 38% higher at $43.50 so far this morning.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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