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Simpson Thacher Represents Barr Pharmaceuticals in Tender Offer for Croatian Company

10.26.06
Simpson Thacher represents Barr Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. public company, who acquired over 95% of Pliva d.d., the largest company in Croatia. The purchase price is approximately $2.5 billion. Barr acquired Pliva after winning a takeover battle against Actavis. The transaction is the first known tender offer for a Croatian company. Simpson Thacher lawyers who worked on the transaction were Gary Horowitz, Gary Mandel, Ryerson Symons, Jay Ptashek, Adeeb Fadil, Noreen Lavan, Christine Symons, Harald Zeiter and Nentcho Nentchev and summer associates Drew Rabe, Aimee Siebert and Jennifer Marsh.