Gilead Buying Alexion Tops Piper's Potential Events In 2017

Piper Jaffray healthcare analysts, led by Joshua Schimmer, laid out 17 potential surprise or provocative events for Biopharma in 2017. Their potential outcomes and events are led Gilead (GILD) acquiring Alexion (ALXN) and a President Donald Trump tweeting about the price of Biogen (BIIB) and Ionis Pharmaceuticals' (IONS) Spinraza. Other potential events Piper sees is a "massively dilutive" equity recapitalization for Valeant (VRX) and a failure for Seattle Genetics' (SGEN) ECHELON trial. The firm also sees the potential for Teva (TEVA) cleaning house and bringing in a non-Israeli CEO.