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Merck Completes Tender Offer to Acquire Immune Design

April 2, 2019 Off By BusinessWire

KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24MRK&src=ctag" target="_blank"gt;$MRKlt;/agt; lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MRK?src=hash" target="_blank"gt;#MRKlt;/agt;–Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada,
announced the successful completion of the cash tender offer, through a
subsidiary, for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Immune
Design (NASDAQ: IMDZ) at a purchase price of $5.85 per share. As of the
tender offer expiration, 41,970,607 shares of common stock of Immune
Design were validly tendered and not withdrawn from the tender offer,
representing approximately 86.75 percent of the outstanding common stock
of Immune Design on a fully diluted basis. All of such shares have been
accepted for payment in accordance with the terms of the tender offer,
and Merck expects to promptly pay for such shares.

Merck expects to complete the acquisition of Immune Design today through
a merger of Merck’s wholly-owned subsidiary with and into Immune Design
in which all shares not tendered into the offer will be canceled and
converted into the right to receive cash equal to the $5.85 offer price
per share without interest, less any applicable withholding taxes. Upon
completion of the merger, Immune Design will become a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Merck and the common stock of Immune Design will cease to
be traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market.

About Merck

For more than a century, Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical
company known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been
inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of
the world’s most challenging diseases. Through our prescription
medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products, we
work with customers and operate in more than 140 countries to deliver
innovative health solutions. We also demonstrate our commitment to
increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs
and partnerships. Today, Merck continues to be at the forefront of
research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that
threaten people and communities around the world – including cancer,
cardio-metabolic diseases, emerging animal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease
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