Radnor, PA 6/4/14—VWR has acquired LABRepCo, a distributor of lab equipment to the eastern US. Financial details were not disclosed. LABRepCo specializes in lab equipment supply and partnering in new lab builds and renovations through consultative relationships. “Like VWR, LABRepCo believes that its people are what differentiate them in the industry,” said Mark McLoughlin, senior […]
Malvern, UK 6/4/14; Engham, UK 6/4/14—Malvern Instruments, a Spectris business and provider of materials and biophysical-characterization technology, has acquired MicroCal from GE Healthcare Life Sciences for an undisclosed amount. A provider of differential scanning calorimeters and isothermal-titration calorimeters, MicroCal generates $30 million in annual revenues. “MicroCal products are an excellent fit with Malvern’s existing portfolio […]
Basel, Germany 6/2/14—Roche has acquired Genia Technologies, a developer of single-molecule DNA-sequencing technology, for $125 million in cash and up to $225 million in contingent payments. Genia’s platform employs semiconductor-based nanopore technology and is expected to reduce the price of sequencing. The platform allows for electrical real-time analysis without the need for complicated optics, labels, […]
Washington, DC 5/22/14—Roka Biosciences has filed to raise $75.0 million through a US IPO. Roka plans to list its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Pricing details were not announced. Roka offers the Atlas instrument and Atlas Detection Assays for molecular-based automated foodborne-pathogen testing. Roka supplies tests for Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli O157:H7, Shiga toxin–producing […]
San Diego, CA 5/30/14; San Diego, CA 5/30/14—Sequenom has sold its Bioscience unit to Agena Bioscience, a Telegraph Hill Partners company, for $31.8 million and contingent consideration of up to $4 million. The Bioscience business manufactures and sells the MALDI-TOF MS–based MassARRAY platform for genetic analysis in research and clinical labs. Agena will retain all […]
Hilden, Germany and Germantown, MD 5/20/14—QIAGEN has acquired BIOBASE, a provider of expertly curated biological databases, for an undisclosed amount. BIOBASE products include the HGMD Human Gene Mutation Database on human inherited-disease mutations and the PGMD PharmacoGenomic Mutation Database, which identifies all published gene variants that affect patient drug response. “With HGMD and other content […]
New York, NY 5/22/14—The Wall Street Journal reported that VWR is in talks about a possible IPO or sale, according to sources. VWR and owner Madison Dearborn Partners have talked with banks in recent weeks about an IPO to raise $750 million. Such an offering would value the equity in VWR at $4 billion. As […]
New York, NY 5/29/14—Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg has reported that Thermo Fisher Scientific intends to sell its Cole-Parmer Instrument business, which supplies lab equipment. Cole-Parmer has annual EBITDA of $50 million. The sources stated the sale price could range from $500 million to $700 million. Thermo acquired Cole-Parmer as part of its 2006 purchase of […]
Greenford, UK 4/28/14; Greenford, UK 5/14/14—Ultra Electronics, a defense, security, transport and energy company, has acquired Forensic Technology WAI for an initial cash consideration of CAD $94 million ($85 million = CAD 1.10 = $1). Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with 253 employees, Forensic Technology provides automated firearm-ballistics identification and forensics-analysis systems to law enforcement agencies. […]
Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, MA 5/15/14; Cambridge, MA 5/15/14—Gene-editing technology firm Horizon Discovery has acquired the CombinatoRX services business and related assets from biopharmaceutical company Zalicus for £4.74 million ($8 million = £0.59 = $1). The business consists of the cHTS (combination high-throughput screening) platform and Chalice software for the screening and analysis of thousands […]
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