Milford, MA 12/21/10—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired TKA Wasseraufbereitungssysteme GmbH, a provider of laboratory water purification systems. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Niederelbert, Germany, TKA had 2009 revenues of €10 million ($14 million = €0.72 = $1) and has 60 employees. “The demand for ultrapure water, in particular, is driven by the ever-increasing […]
St. Louis, MO 12/30/10—Sigma-Aldrich has acquired all of the outstanding shares of Cerilliant from Argenta Partners for an undisclosed amount. Based in Round Rock, Texas, with 65 employees, Cerilliant provides high quality reference standards and materials for the clinical diagnostics, environmental, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, forensic and clinical toxicology markets. Sigma-Aldrich stated that the acquisition would complement […]
Madison, WI 12/14/10; Santa Clara, CA 12/15/10—Affymetrix announced that the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has granted the Company’s motion for summary judgment that it does not infringe two Illumina patents: US Patent Nos. 7,510,841 (Methods of Making and Using Composite Arrays for the Detection of a Plurality of Target Analytes) […]
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 […]
South San Francisco, CA 12/3/10; Washington, DC 12/3/10—Fluidigm has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC for an IPO. Fluidigm provides microfluidic instrumentation and consumables for life science research, including gene expression, genotyping and digital PCR (see page 12). The number of shares and price range has not yet been determined. In 2009, the […]
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 […]
Washington, DC 11/15/10; Washington, DC 11/19/10—DNA sequencer firm Helicos BioSciences has been delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange after withdrawing its appeal (see IBO 10/15/10). The stock now trades on the OTC Markets. Last month, the company received a delisting determination letter from NASDAQ due to its failure to comply with the minimum bid price […]
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 […]
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