M&A Deal Summary

Evotec Acquires Cyprotex

On December 15, 2016, Evotec acquired life science company Cyprotex for 55M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Evotec’s 10th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Evotec’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Evotec’s 2nd transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-12-15
Target Cyprotex
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Evotec
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 55M GBP

Target

Cyprotex

Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Cyprotex PLC is a specialist ADME-Tox Contract Research Organisation, serves the Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Cosmetics/Personal Care and Chemicals Industries as well as academia and not-for-profit organisations.

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Buyer

Evotec

Hamburg, Germany

Category Company
Founded 1993
Sector Life Science
Employees4,759
Revenue 797M EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company focused on rapidly progressing innovative product approaches with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Evotec was founded in 1993 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 11 of 15
Sector: Life Science M&A 10 of 14
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 8 of 11
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-28 Euprotec

Manchester, United Kingdom

Euprotec is a specialty and highly collaborative preclinical Contract Research Organisation (CRO) delivering a comprehensive portfolio of infectious disease biology services.

Buy £3M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-07-30 Aptuit

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Aptuit LLC is a provider of integrated early discovery to mid-phase drug development services in the pharmaceutical industry including Drug Design & Discovery, API Development and Manufacture, Solid State Chemistry, CMC, Preclinical and IND enabling GLP/GMP programs. Fully integrated drug discovery & development services are available from our facilities in the UK, Italy, and Switzerland.

Buy $300M