Shire, Baxalta in late-stage talks on $32B tie-up: Bloomberg

Shire ($SHPG) is finally nearing the Baxalta ($BXLT) buyout it's long coveted, according to Bloomberg's sources. The two drugmakers are discussing a price between $46.50 and $48 per share, the news service reports, which would value the Illinois pharma at about $32 billion. A tie-up, Shire CEO Flemming Ornskov has said, would create a global rare-disease leader that can bring in $20 billion in sales by 2020. More from FiercePharma