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Genzyme, After Months of Holding Out, Agrees to Be Sold to Sanofi-Aventis for $20.1B

February 16, 2011
It’s been a long time coming, but the sale of Genzyme, the Cambridge, MA-based biotech company, to pharma giant Sanofi-Aventis for $20.1 billion marks a landmark moment in the biotech industry here in Boston and beyond.
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