Deals Rumor Mill: AbbVie, ZF Friedrichshafen, T-Mobile

By Benjamin Horney ( September 26, 2014, 5:28 PM EDT) -- U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc. is looking into ways it can raise additional funding to help finance its planned $54 billion takeover of European rival Shire PLC, Bloomberg reported on Friday. According to the report, AbbVie could look to borrow up to $7 billion more than it had originally intended due to new limitations introduced by the U.S. Treasury earlier this week that clamped down on the tax benefits available to U.S. companies using inversions as a way out of comparatively hefty stateside taxes....

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