Verona Pharma

VRNA

Market cap $9.19B

LONDON and RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verona Pharma plc (Nasdaq: VRNA) (“Verona Pharma”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on respiratory diseases, which entered into a definitive agreement on July 8, 2025 relating to its proposed acquisition by MSD (tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA), known as Merck in the U.S. and Canada, through a wholly owned subsidiary or a nominee, today announced that the High Court of Justice of England and Wales has approved the proposal for MSD to acquire Verona Pharma for $107 per American Depository Share (ADS), each of which represents eight Verona Pharma ordinary shares, for a total transaction value of approximately $10 billion (the “Transaction”).

LONDON, U.K., and RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verona Pharma plc (Nasdaq: VRNA) (“Verona Pharma”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on respiratory diseases, which entered into a definitive agreement on July 8, 2025 relating to its proposed acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) (“Merck”) through a wholly owned subsidiary or a nominee, today announced that its shareholders have approved the proposal for Merck to acquire Verona Pharma for $107 per American Depository Share (ADS), each of which represents eight Verona Pharma ordinary shares, for a total transaction value of approximately $10 billion (the “Transaction”).

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NEW YORK, July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Class Action Attorney Juan Monteverde with Monteverde & Associates PC (the “M&A Class Action Firm”), has recovered millions of dollars for shareholders and is recognized as a Top 50 Firm in the 2024 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report. The firm is headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City and is investigating Verona Pharma plc (NASDAQ: VRNA ) related to its sale to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC for $107.00 per American Depository Shares. Is it a fair deal?

NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”) are investigating the proposed sale of Verona Pharma plc (NasdaqGM: VRNA) to Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of Verona will receive $107.00 in cash for each share of American Depository Share that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process.