Sure but that wipes out all risk associated with holding until 100 (or whatever the additional indications are worth in sp value), and cash in hand now if you want it. I would take a 1:1 all day, and hold whatever is left after I buy a beach house for the additional indications to pump azn, then get a boat for the beach house.
Sorry Venture Cap for stepping on your idea. Don't remember seeing it. The Bloomberg news story where AZN was wanting to merge with Gilead just started making think of another alternative for them.
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