DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) - Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc , a drugs group founded in Jordan in 1978, has picked four banks to arrange a series of fixed income meetings starting Friday for a potential benchmark dollar bond, a document from lead arrangers showed. The company has picked Citigroup,
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Read moreMiddle East focused Hikma Pharmaceuticals is reportedly planning to sell its first benchmark-sized dollar bonds, according to two people familiar with the sale. Bloomberg News on Tuesday cited sources close to the deal in its report. Shares in Hikma fell 1.8% to 2217p on the back of the report, as m
Read moreHikma Pharmaceuticals' decision not to sell its injectables business is probably one of the savviest decisions the company has taken in the last few years. The price-tag mooted was $2bn. More importantly, it put the little-known firm on many investors' radars. That unit saw its sales in the US rise
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