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Can an Overthrown King Help Mylan?

Mylan, one of the nation's top three generics companies, is offering to buy King Pharmaceuticals for $3.7 billion in a stock swap in order to boost its efforts in the branded pharmaceutical business. But the controversial proposal and reaction to it raises interesting questions about business models in specialty pharma, a concept that has, many ways, taken over the small-company pharma world.

The business press and Wall Street analysts have already laid out many of the reasons for skepticism about Mylan Laboratories Inc. 's proposal to acquire King Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $3.7 billion in stock [See Deal]. But the proposal and reaction to it raises interesting additional questions about business models in specialty pharma, a concept that has, in many ways, taken over the small-company pharma world.

Mylan, one of the nation's top three generics companies, says it is buying King to boost its efforts in the branded pharmaceutical business. The company, like several of its large...

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