M&A Deal Summary

Eurofins Scientific Acquires Viracor-IBT Laboratories

On July 1, 2014, Eurofins Scientific acquired life science company Viracor-IBT Laboratories from Ampersand Capital Partners for 255M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Eurofins Scientific’s 24th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Eurofins Scientific’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Eurofins Scientific’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Eurofins Scientific’s 1st transaction in Missouri.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-07-01
Target Viracor-IBT Laboratories
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Eurofins Scientific
Sellers(s) Ampersand Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 255M USD
Advisor(s) Lazard Middle Market (Financial)

Target

Viracor-IBT Laboratories

Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States
Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Inc. provides infectious disease testing, immune monitoring, and bioanalytical services to vaccine, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device developers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Eurofins Scientific

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Life Science
Employees62,000
Revenue 6.5B EUR (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Eurofins Scientific is an international group of laboratories providing a unique range of analytical testing services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental and consumer products industries and to governments. Eurofins Scientific was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Luxembourg City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 98
Sector (Life Science) 24 of 74
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 11 of 73
State (Missouri) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 8 of 31
Year (2014) 9 of 10
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-06 Calscience Environmental Laboratories

Garden Grove, California, United States

Calscience Environmental Laboratories is an environmental and marine chemistry laboratory testing field. Company offer a comprehensive portfolio of analytical methods and company analytical expertise encompasses all environmental matrices including, air, groundwater, sea water, sediment, soil, solid waste, stormwater, tissue and wastewater.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-07-02 Analytical Technology Serviços Analíticos e Ambientais

São Paulo, Brazil

Analytical Technology is a company specialized in providing chemical analysis services providing a range of products and solutions developed with differentiated analytical standard. It is also one of the major laboratories for water, air and soil testing, as well as for oil geochemistry analysis.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Ampersand Capital Partners

Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1988
PE ASSETS 2.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Ampersand Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity group that concentrates on growth equity investment opportunities in the healthcare sector. The Firm looks to invest $10 to $100 million in businesses with $10 to $100 million of revenue. Specific areas of interests within healthcare include lab products, specialty diagnostic equipment, pharmaceutical outsourcing, and specialty pharma. Ampersand generally prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor. Ampersand was formed in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 21 of 55
Sector (Life Science) 8 of 25
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 15 of 38
State (Missouri) 2 of 3
Country (United States) 21 of 51
Year (2014) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 6 of 13
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-02-18 IFP

Faribault, Massachusetts, United States

IFP is a provider of innovative powdered solutions and specialty ingredients to the global food and beverage, health and wellness and medical nutrition markets.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-10-29 Chantest

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

ChanTest, is a provider of specialized laboratory testing services for drug development. ChanTest specializes in measuring interactions between drug candidates and proteins known as ion channels.

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