Activist investor calls for transparent Stada sales process

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Activist investor AOC has called for Stada's management and supervisory boards to run a non-biased, transparent sales process for the German generic drugs maker. Stada on Thursday received a binding 3.6 billion euro (3 billion pounds) takeover offer from buyout firm Advent, which set a Monday deadline for management to respond. The company should make sure not to accept the first, but only the highest offer, the company's largest investor with more than 5 percent of the shares said in a statement on Friday. It should invite both financial and strategic investors to conduct due diligence of Stada and provide a timeline for the process, AOC added. ($1 = 0.9427 euros) (Reporting by Arno Schuetze; Editing by Maria Sheahan)