Walgreens’s is in a deal with Sycamore Partners to be taken private, Anna Wilde Mathews and Lauren Thomas write for the Wall Street Journal…The equity value of the deal would be almost $10B with Sycamore to pay $11.45 a share in cash for Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) WBA, added the WSJ story. “Shareholders could also receive up to an additional $3 a share down the road, based on proceeds from selling the company’s primary-care assets,” added the story..
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