DUBLIN – Pfizer Inc. (New York) is swapping its New York home for an Irish domicile by combining with Allergan plc (Dublin) in an all-share deal, which values the latter firm at $160 billion and which will cut Pfizer's tax rate from its reported rate of 25.5 percent in 2014 to 17 percent to 18 percent for the combined company.

Liberator Medical Holdings Inc. (LBMH; Stuart, Fla.) shares (NASDAQ:LBMH) soared 25 percent in heavy trading Friday, closing at $3.34 a share, on the news that C. R. Bard Inc. (Murray Hill, N.J.) is buying the company for $3.35 per share, or about $181 million. The transaction is expected to close in 1Q16.