one company’s 35-year legacy of biologics development (Kabi Vitrum—
the combined group of Swedish pharmaceutical companies Kabi
and Vitrum—which merged with Pharmacia and was later acquired,
forming Biovitrum in 2001) with another’s 25-year history of
commercializing treatments for rare diseases (Swedish Orphan), to
lead in a rare-disease market environment with very few independent
midsize companies.