TOKYO– Global investment firm KKR and leading power tool and life science equipment manufacturer Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. (“Hitachi Koki” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of a tender offer by HK Holdings Co., Ltd. (the “Offeror”), an entity owned by KKR investment funds, for all the existing common shares and stock acquisition rights of Hitachi Koki. Approximately 89.79% of […]
Deal Represents GTCR’s Leaders Strategy at Work – Successful Corporate Carve-out Followed by Organic Growth and Strategic M&A CHICAGO, IL GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has completed the sale of Cole-Parmer Instrument Company (“Cole-Parmer” or the “Company”) to Golden Gate Capital. Founded in 1955, Cole-Parmer is a global manufacturer and […]
Acquisition will Expand VWRCATALYST Services Portfolio RADNOR, Pa. — VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production customers, announced today that it has acquired EPL Archives, Inc., an international biorepository services organization that supports customers across the entire regulated product research, development and commercialization lifecycle by providing archive […]
Proposal fails to recognise value of AkzoNobel and neglects to address significant risks and uncertainties, including extensive anti-trust concerns Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZA.AS; AKZOY) AkzoNobel today announces it has rejected a second unsolicited, non-binding and conditional proposal of 20 March from PPG Industries Inc. for all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in the […]
SAN DIEGO Daylight Solutions, Inc. (Daylight), a world leader in mid-infrared lasers and systems based on its proprietary quantum cascade laser (QCL) technologies, along with Leonardo S.p.A., through its U.S. subsidiary Leonardo DRS, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement in which Leonardo DRS will pay $150 million USD to obtain 100% of […]
ROME — Leonardo, through the US subsidiary Leonardo DRS, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of quantum cascade laser products and technology. Mauro Moretti Leonardo CEO and General Manager declared: “Acquisition of Daylight Solutions is a first significant step forward towards the objectives of growth and development […]
WALTHAM, Mass. & BRANFORD, Conn.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has acquired Core Informatics, which provides a leading cloud-based platform supporting scientific data management. Core’s offerings will significantly enhance Thermo Fisher’s existing informatics solutions and complement its cloud platform, which supports the company’s genetic analysis, qPCR and proteomics […]
Unique cell analysis platform for basic research and drug discovery has broad and expanding user base Acquisition to significantly enhance Sartorius’ Bioanalytics portfolio Goettingen – Sartorius, a leading partner to the biopharmaceutical industry and laboratories, today signed an agreement to acquire U.S. based Essen BioScience Inc., a pioneer and leader in the field of cell-based […]
Camarillo, CA –Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of DuPont Diagnostics, the global food safety diagnostics business of DuPont. The business was originally formed in 1992 as Qualicon. Hygiena will now sell the former DuPont Diagnostics products […]
Mountain View, CA—Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. (“TBUSH”) announced that it has completed the acquisition of WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (“WaferGen”), WaferGen has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of TBUSH as of February 28, 2017 (US local time). Under the merger agreement executed with WaferGen, TBUSH paid 35.9 million US dollars to acquire 100% of the equity […]
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