Subsequent Events

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Subsequent Events [Abstract]

Subsequent Events

Subsequent Events

Kantar Health

On April 1, 2021, we acquired Kantar Health, a division of Kantar Group, for a base cash purchase price of $375 million. Kantar Health provides data, analytics, commercial research, and consulting services to the life sciences industry. The base purchase price is subject to post-closing adjustments for working capital and certain other adjustments, as specified in the Securities Purchase Agreement dated December 16, 2020, as amended.

Our acquisition of Kantar Health will be treated as a purchase in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, which requires allocation of the purchase price to the estimated fair values of assets and liabilities acquired in the transaction. Due to the timing of the acquisition subsequent to our first quarter 2021 period-end, certain disclosures, including the preliminary allocation of purchase price, have been omitted from this quarterly report on Form 10-Q because the initial accounting for the business combination is incomplete as of the filing date. We will include necessary disclosures in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for our second quarter of 2021.

2021 Share Repurchase Program

On April 23, 2021, our Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program (the "2021 Share Repurchase Program"), which authorizes the Company to repurchase up to $3.75 billion in the aggregate of shares of our common stock, excluding transaction costs. The 2021 Share Repurchase Program is incremental to our current program originally approved in May 2017. The repurchases are to be effectuated in the open market, by block purchase, in privately negotiated transactions, or through other transactions managed by broker-dealers, or any combination thereof. The 2021 Share Repurchase Program will expire on December 31, 2023.