By Colin Kellaher
Shares of Nuvalent surged in premarket trading Tuesday after the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company agreed to be acquired by U.K. pharmaceutical company GSK for $10.6 billion.
GSK is paying $124 a share in cash for Nuvalent, a 40% premium to Monday's closing price of $88.49 for the Cambridge, Mass., company.
The deal is slated to close in the third quarter.
Nuvalent shares were recently up more than 38% to $122.51 in premarket trading.
Write to Colin Kellaher at colin.kellaher@wsj.com
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