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Order book for Shire's M&A bond reach US$25bn: lead

Reuters - UK Focus

By Hillary Flynn

NEW YORK, Sept 19 (IFR) - The order book for drugmaker Shire (Xetra: S7E.DE - news) 's M&A bond have reached US$25bn, one of the banks managing the deal told IFR.

The deal, expected to be up to US$12bn in size, is due to price on Monday and will help finance Shire's acquisition of Baxalta (Berlin: 9BX.BE - news) .

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays (LSE: BARC.L - news) , Morgan Stanley (Xetra: 885836 - news) are active bookrunners on the deal. (Reporting by Hillary Flynn; Editing by Natalie Harrison and Shankar Ramakrishnan)