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Akorn to Acquire Hi-Tech Pharmacal

Expands specialty business

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Akorn, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that manufactures and markets generic, branded, and OTC products, for $640 million in cash. The combined company is expected to have annual revenues of more than $500 million.   Hi-Tech specializes in difficult to manufacture liquid and semi-solid dosage forms. Hi-Tech produces and markets a range of oral solutions and suspensions, as well as topical ointments and creams...

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