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Lab Industry Buzz: The 10 Biggest DX Mergers of 2019

Publication Date: Feb 1, 2020

Conspicuous by its absence from the list is the proposed $1.2 billion Illumina takeover of Pacific Biosciences which suddenly seems to be in major trouble. (See DX Deals on page 1 for the details.) Here are the 10-highest value M&A diagnostics deals that did come off in 2019.

Top 10 Lab M&A Deals of 2019

Rank

Buyer

Target

Reported Price

1

Danaher

GE Biopharma

$21.4 billion

2

Exact Sciences

Genomic Health

$2.8 billion (cash + stock)

3

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Brammer Bio

$1.7 billion

4

Agilent Technologies

BioTek Instruments

$1.17 billion

5

PHC Holdings (formerly known as Panasonic Healthcare Holdings)

Thermo Fisher Scientific

$1.14 billion

6

Sartorius

Danaher

$750 million*

7

Covance Drug Development (part of LabCorp)

Envigo

$485 million

8

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

Labcyte

$308 million

9

PerkinElmer

Cisbio Bioassays

$219.8 million

10

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice investment funds

Cynosure (owned by Hologic)

$205 million

* Announced in 2019 with closing scheduled for 2020

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This article originally appeared in G2 Intelligence, Laboratory Industry Report, January 2020

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