New York, NY 12/20/10—Bloomberg has reported that Danaher and Thermo Fisher Scientific are among the companies bidding to acquire Beckman Coulter (see IBO 12/15/10), according to three people familiar with the situation. Other companies that may bid include private equity firms KKR & Co., Bain Capital, Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group. Private equity firms […]
Hopkinton and Woburn, MA 12/9/10—Life science instrument provider Caliper Life Sciences has agreed to acquire Cambridge Research & Instrumentation (CRi) for $20.0 million. CRi develops and markets preclinical and tissue-based multiplexed analysis systems. The company is expected to have 2010 revenues of $12.0 million. Caliper stated that the technology should deliver a growth rate of […]
New York, NY 12/9/10—Citing three people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported on December 9 that Beckman Coulter is considering a sale of the company or going private and has hired Goldman Sachs Group to study the matter. Possible buyers include private equity groups, industrial conglomerates or diagnostics companies. A decision is not expected for […]
Waltham, MA and Sunnyvale, CA 12/13/10—Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced an offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Dionex for $118.50 per share in cash for a total purchase price of approximately $2.1 billion. The offer is a 21% premium over the closing price of Dionex shares on December 10. Thermo will use […]
In the second multibillion dollar acquisition this year involving a laboratory product and instrumentation company following the purchase of Millipore (see IBO 2/28/10), Thermo Fisher Scientific announced this month it will acquire Dionex for $2.1 billion in cash (see page 2), or approximately five times sales. This is Thermo’s largest acquisition since its 2006 purchase […]
Company Announcements As part of its new out-licensing strategy, Life Technologies announced in September the finalization of cell line license agreements to provide rights to its Chinese hamster ovary cell lines for the production of recombinant protein used as therapeutic agents and vaccines. In October, Teledyne Tekmar partnered with Analytical Sciences Group, which will be […]
Bruker BioSpin’s Icon scanner, introduced in September, provides a smaller, lower-cost system for MRI scanning for research. The Icon expands Bruker’s high-field preclinical and molecular MRI product line, which previously ranged from 4.7 to 17 T field strength, to lower-field (1 T) permanent-magnet benchtop MRI systems, said Director of Marketing Communications Thorsten Thiel. It is […]
Stockholm, Sweden and Västra Frölunda, Sweden 11/29/10—Ratos AB, a Swedish private equity firm, has offered SEK 277 million ($39 million = SEK 7 = $1) to buy analytical instrument maker Biolin Scientific AB. The offer of SEK 11.50 ($1.64) per share represents a premium of 32.2% compared with the average Biolin share price traded on […]
Philadelphia, PA and London, UK 11/29/10—Publishing firm Thomson Reuters has acquired GeneGo for an undisclosed amount. GeneGo provides biology and disease information, analytics and decision support solutions for pharmaceutical R&D. GeneGo has joined Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science business. “There is an increasing need for biology content, detailed disease insights and analytics to support R&D […]
Branford, CT 11/01/10—Roche’s 454 Life Sciences has exclusively partnered with DNA Electronics to develop a low-cost, high-throughput DNA sequencing system, which will allow a transition from optical detection to inexpensive, highly scalable electrochemical detection, according to Roche. “We’re pleased to work together with DNA Electronics, the inventors of ISFET [ion sensitive field effect transistor] DNA […]
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