Pfizer Announces Closing of Joint Venture With GlaxoSmithKline to Create a Premier Global Consumer Healthcare Company - Seite 2

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Pfizer Disclosure Notice

The information contained in this release is as of August 1, 2019. Pfizer assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this release as the result of new information or future events or developments.

This release contains forward-looking information related to Pfizer, Pfizer’s and GSK’s consumer healthcare businesses and the joint venture combining Pfizer’s and GSK’s consumer healthcare businesses that involves substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Forward-looking statements in this release include, among other things, statements about the potential benefits of the joint venture and transaction, anticipated cost synergies, the companies’ plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, the financial condition, results of operations and business of the joint venture, the joint venture’s products and potential and GSK’s future plans to separate the joint venture as an independent company. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, risks related to the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the transaction, including the possibility that the expected benefits and cost savings from the transaction will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; the risk that the businesses will not be integrated successfully; the possibility that a future separation of the joint venture may not occur; disruption from the transaction making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; negative effects of the transaction on the market price of Pfizer’s common stock and on Pfizer’s operating results; significant transaction costs; unknown liabilities; the risk of litigation and/or regulatory actions related to the transaction; other business effects, including the effects of industry, market, economic, political or regulatory conditions; future exchange and interest rates; changes in tax and other laws, regulations, rates and policies; future business combinations or disposals; and competitive developments.