Walgreens and Alliance Boots to Back AmerisourceBergen

Walgreen, a retail drugstore chain in the US and KKR portfolio company Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group, have received the required regulatory clearances for their equity investment in pharmaceutical services company AmerisourceBergen Corporation. The regulatory clearances permit both the purchase of up to 7 percent of the fully diluted equity of AmerisourceBergen in the open market, and the exercise of two warrants for 16 percent in the aggregate of the fully diluted equity of AmerisourceBergen in 2016 and 2017.

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