M&A Deal Summary

Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Olink AB - Duolink

On October 29, 2015, Sigma-Aldrich acquired life science company Olink AB - Duolink from Olink

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Sigma-Aldrich’s 10th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Sigma-Aldrich’s 1st transaction in Sweden.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-10-29
Target Olink AB - Duolink
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Sigma-Aldrich
Sellers(s) Olink
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Olink AB - Duolink

Sweden
Olink AB - Duolink is a provider of bio science solutions and services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Sigma-Aldrich

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Category Company
Founded 1951
Sector Life Science
Employees9,800
Revenue 2.8B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION

Sigma-Aldrich Corp. is a life science and high technology company whose biochemical, organic chemical products, kits, and services are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostics and high technology manufacturing. Sigma-Aldrich customers include more than 1.3 million scientists and technologists in life science companies, university, and government institutions, hospitals, and industry.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 13
Sector: Life Science M&A 10 of 10
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: Sweden M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-10-01 Pharmorphix

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pharmorphix Ltd. is a provider of solid form services, including polymorph studies, salt selection, co-crystallization, chiral separations and process scale up that are critical to successful drug discovery and development.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-12-15 Sigma-Aldrich Corp - Seelze

Germany

Sigma-Aldrich - Seelze is a manufacturer of high-purity research chemicals and other materials used in new drug discovery, medical diagnostic testing and other laboratory applications.

Sell €105M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Olink

Uppsala, Sweden

Category Company
Founded 2016
Sector Life Science
Employees667
Revenue 140M USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION

Olink provides leading solutions for advanced proteomics research and development, enabling biopharmaceutical companies and leading academic researchers to quickly and efficiently understand diseases at the protein level. Olink's proprietary technology, Proximity Extension Assay (PEA), enables high-throughput protein analysis for the very large installed base of qPCR and next-generation sequencing readout systems on the market. Olink was founded in 2016 and is based in Uppsala, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Life Science M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Sweden M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 1