Pfizer’s $43 Billion Seagen Takeover Gets EU Merger Review

  • European Commission sets Oct. 19 deadline for initial decision
  • Seagen is leader in medicine used to help fight cancers

The Seagen headquarters in Bothell, Washington, US.

Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg
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Pfizer Inc.’s $43 billion takeover of Seagen Inc. faces a European Union review after the companies formally notified the bloc’s merger watchdog.

The European Commission set Oct. 19 as a deadline to complete its initial probe, according to a filing on its website on Friday.