M&A Deal Summary

Affymetrix Acquires eBioscience

On November 30, 2011, Affymetrix acquired life science company eBioscience for 330M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Affymetrix’s 5th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Affymetrix’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Affymetrix’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Affymetrix’s 4th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-11-30
Target eBioscience
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Affymetrix
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 330M USD
Advisor(s) Jefferies (Financial)
DLA Piper (Legal)

Target

eBioscience

San Diego, California, United States
website
eBioscience, Inc. offers flow cytometry and immunoassay reagents for immunology and oncology research and diagnostics.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Affymetrix

Santa Clara, California, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Medical Products
Employees1,200
Revenue 349M USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION

Affymetrix develops and provides technologies that enable multiplex and parallel analysis of biological systems at the cell, protein, and gene level, facilitating the rapid translation of results into biology for a better world.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 7
Sector (Life Science) 5 of 5
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 7
State (California) 4 of 4
Country (United States) 6 of 7
Year (2011) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-12-05 Panomics

Fremont, California, United States

Panomics, Inc. is a privately-held life science tools company with hundreds of commercial products primarily in the fields of transcription regulation, cell signaling and signal transduction.

Buy $73M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-14 Anatrace

Maumee, Ohio, United States

Anatrace is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of unique, high purity detergents and synthetic lipids for use in membrane protein studies. Anatrace is based in Maumee, Ohio.

Sell -
Mergr

Product

Company

Legal