Zydus Lifesciences to Acquire Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Business of Sterling Biotech

MT Newswires Live09-17

Zydus Lifesciences (NSE: ZYDUSLIFE, BOM:532321) has entered into a business transfer agreement to purchase the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) business of Sterling Biotech for 840 million Indian rupees, according to a Tuesday filing to the stock exchanges.

In August, Zydus Animal Health and Investments, a subsidiary of the company, acquired a 50% stake in Sterling Biotech from Perfect Day.

Sterling Biotech is engaged in manufacturing fermentation-based API products such as Lovastatin, Daunorubicin, Doxorubicin

and Epirubicin at its manufacturing unit near Vadodara in Gujarat, India.

The transaction is expected to be completed by Dec. 31.

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