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Doug Farrar, principal at Maywood Strategies and former senior adviser to FTC commissioner Lina Khan, weighs in on the Trump administration's use of the FTC as a tool to facilitate AI deals and other mergers, including Pfizers takeover of obesity drug maker Metsera.

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Albert Bourla had long searched for an obesity drug to make up for dwindling sales of the pharma company’s aging blockbusters. Late Friday, after a dramatic bidding war, he learned he’d finally claimed his prize.
Bourla found out at around 9 p.m. that evening, according to people familiar with the matter, that the board of Metsera Inc., a three-year-old biotech startup developing a new generation of weight-loss drugs, had voted unanimously to accept Pfizer’s takeover offer of as much as $10 billion.
It was the climax of a Wall Street duel that had pitted Pfizer against the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk A/S – and a deal that is poised to set the global drug industry’s pecking order for years to come.
The fight for Metsera reverberated all the way to the White House, where last week, standing alongside President Donald Trump, Novo CEO Mike Doustdar challenged Pfizer to top its bid. “Our message to Pfizer is that if they would like to buy the company, then put your hand in the pocket and bid higher,” Doustdar said on Thursday.
Pfizer promptly did so, submitting a sweetened bid Friday that was first reported by Bloomberg News, and matched a revised offer from Novo. Pfizer was prepared for the bidding to go through the weekend, according to people familiar with Pfizer’s thinking, but at 9:32 p.m. Metsera issued a news release saying that the US drug giant had prevailed.
Metsera indicated that the US government had loomed large in its thinking, citing legal and regulatory factors in its decision-making. 
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