M&A Deal Summary

Agilent Acquires Luxcel Biosciences

On January 9, 2018, Agilent acquired medical products company Luxcel Biosciences

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Agilent’s 4th transaction in the Medical Products sector.
  • This is Agilent’s 1st transaction in Ireland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2018-01-09
Target Luxcel Biosciences
Sector Medical Products
Buyer(s) Agilent
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Luxcel Biosciences

Cork, Ireland
Luxcel Biosciences is a developer of real-time fluorescence plate-reader based in vitro cell assay kits. Luxcel Biosciences is based in Cork, Ireland.

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Buyer

Agilent

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees17,600
Revenue 6.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
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Agilent produces instruments, software, services, and consumables solutions for the entire laboratory workflow. The company's life sciences and applied markets business provides application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify, and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular level. Agilent was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Clara, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 25 of 38
Sector: Medical Products M&A 4 of 7
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 22 of 35
Country: Ireland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 1 of 7
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