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Wednesday, 10 December 2025
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Arrotex Pharmaceuticals founder Dennis Bastas has been named one of the Australian Financial Review’s Business People of the Year.
Bastas has a private wealth estimated at $5 billion after selling a 25 per cent stake in Arrotex’s parent company DBG Health to US merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners for $1.6 billion in August.

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