Carlsbad and Mountain View, CA 5/29/07—Invitrogen and Clontech Laboratories, a unit of Takara Bio, have announced the settlement of Invitrogen’s patent infringement lawsuit against Clontech. The settlement comes one week after a jury decision in a federal district court in Maryland. According to the settlement, Clontech has agreed that Invitrogen’s four patents for “Cloned Genes […]
London, UK 5/30/07—The UK’s Competition Commission (CC) has published its final decision that Thermo Fisher Scientific’s purchase of GV Instruments (see IBO 7/31/06) “would lead to higher prices, or other adverse effects, for customers of some Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) instruments” (see IBO 3/15/07). The CC’s findings specify that the acquisition of GV Instruments […]
Hollywood, FL 5/23/07; Washington, DC 5/23/07—In a busy week for initial public offerings (IPOs) of laboratory product companies (see below), STARLIMS completed its IPO of common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on May 23, raising an estimated $25.5 million in net proceeds (see IBO 5/15/07). The offering consisted of 2.1 million ordinary shares priced […]
New York, NY 5/30/07—Enzo Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Enzo Biochem, has signed an agreement to acquire Axxora Life Sciences for approximately $16.3 million in cash. Axxora, based in San Diego, California, manufactures and markets life science reagents. Two of Axxora’s divisions, ALEXIS Biochemicals and Apotech, are based in Switzerland, and manufacture a variety of […]
Cambridge, MA 5/24/07; Washington, DC 5/24/07—Helicos Biosciences completed the initial public offering of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on May 24 with a pricing of 5.4 million shares at $9 per share (see IBO 2/28/07). The company had initially announced the offering at $13–$15 per share on May 7 and lowered it […]
Carlsbad, CA 5/1/07; Albuquerque, NM 5/2/07—CVI announced that it has signed an agreement with Barloworld Scientific to acquire Melles Griot. While terms of the deal were not revealed, Barloworld said that CVI will pay “a small premium over tangible net asset value” for Melles Griot. After the acquisition, which is expected to close within a […]
West Chester, PA 5/2/07—Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has agreed to sell VWR International to private equity investor Madison Dearborn Partners (see IBO 3/15/07). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. VWR is a distributor of laboratory products to research labs. VWR’s 2006 revenues rose 4% to more than $3.2 billion (see IBO 4/15/07). “Together […]
San Francisco, CA 5/1/07—TIBCO Software, a provider of enterprise software, has agreed to acquire Spotfire for $195 million in cash. Spotfire specializes in data visualization analytics software. Its DecisonSite software, which features specific products for functional genomics, microarray analysis and lead discovery, is widely used by life science researchers. TIBCO will retain the Spotfire name […]
Carlsbad, CA 5/1/07—Invitrogen announced in its first quarter conference call that it has purchased Cascade Biologics. The company, based in Portland, Oregon, produces primary human cell culture systems and reagents for use in basic research, cosmetics testing and cell therapy. According to Gregory Lucier, CEO and chairman of Invitrogen, the acquisition “sets us up for […]
Washington, DC 5/4/07—Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) provider Starlims has filed for a US initial public offering of shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ exchange. The company plans to list 2.1 million shares at a price of $13.70–$15.50 per ordinary share for expected net proceeds of $25.9–$37.4 million. The company has been listed […]
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