Article: Is PDL's Model Paying Off? Cash Payments to Shareholders Soon.

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PDL BioPharma Inc., which promised significant returns to shareholders since adopting an unusual royalty-collecting business model following last year's spinoff of its R&D division, has opted to monetize a percentage of its antibody royalties from Genentech Inc. products to return a special cash dividend by year-end.

That could help assuage some lingering investor wariness over PDL's business structure following last year's reorganization.

Under pressure from shareholders, concerned that the company's lucrative royalty stream from its antibody patent portfolio could be lost amid hefty expenses associated with the much ...

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