Health Care Company Eli Lilly Announces Acquisition of DICE Therapeutics

Eli Lilly LLY has announced an acquisition of DICE Therapeutics DICE that is expected to be completed in Q3 of 2023.

Under the terms of the agreement, Eli Lilly has agreed to give DICE Therapeutics $2.40 billion in cash in exchange for DICE stock.

About The Companies Involved

Eli Lilly is a drug firm with a focus on neuroscience, cardiometabolic, cancer, and immunology. Lilly's key products include Verzenio for cancer; Mounjaro, Jardiance, Trulicity, Humalog, and Humulin for diabetes; and Taltz and Olumiant for immunology.

DICE Therapeutics Inc is a biopharmaceutical company leveraging proprietary technology platform to build a pipeline of novel oral therapeutic candidates to treat chronic diseases in immunology and other therapeutic areas. The company is initially focused on developing oral therapeutics against well-validated targets in immunology, with the goal of achieving comparable potency to systemic biologic counterparts, which have demonstrated the greatest therapeutic benefit to date in these disease areas.

How An Acquisition Works

An acquisition is when one company, called the acquiring company, buys most or all of another company's, or target company's, shares to gain ownership. Buying more than 50% of a company's stock allows the the acquirer to make decisions without the approval of the company's shareholders.

An acquisition can potentially lead to a merger with the parent company, which makes it similar to a merger. This is why the two terms are commonly grouped together as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). However, in a merger, the leadership & operations of both companies usually change dramatically, while during an acquisition this is less likely to happen.

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