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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER Among MEDICIS PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION, VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL, VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL, INC. and MERLIN MERGER SUB, INC. Dated as of September 2, 2012

Merger Agreement • September 5th, 2012 • Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp • Pharmaceutical preparations • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Merger Agreement
• Filed
  September 5th, 2012
• Company
  Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp
• Industry
  Pharmaceutical preparations
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (hereinafter called this “Agreement”), dated as of September 2, 2012, among Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Merlin Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub,” the Company and Merger Sub sometimes being hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Constituent Corporations”), and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., a Canadian corporation (“Parent Holdco”).