M&A Deal Summary

Lonza Acquires Algonomics NV

On November 3, 2009, Lonza acquired life science company Algonomics NV

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Lonza’s 3rd transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Lonza’s 2nd transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-11-03
Target Algonomics NV
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Lonza
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Algonomics NV

Gent, Belgium
Algonomics is a contract research organisation providing integrated immunogenicity prediction services to support companies in the development of biotherapeutics.

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Buyer

Lonza

Basel, Switzerland

Category Company
Founded 1897
Sector Life Science
Employees18,000
Revenue 6.6B CHF (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Lonza plant located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Lonza plant located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Lonza is a global company that focuses on the life sciences sector, offering products and services for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and nutrition markets. Their portfolio spans across biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, consumer health, nutrition, microbial control solutions, and custom manufacturing of specialty chemicals. Lonza was founded in 1897 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 12
Sector: Life Science M&A 3 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 10
Country: Belgium M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2009 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-10-22 Cilian AG

Münster, Germany

Cilian AG is a small innovative biotechnology company which uses the abilities of ciliates, eukaryotic single-cell micro-organisms (specifically the strain Tetrahymena thermophila), for the production of therapeutic proteins and nutritional ingredients.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-01-01 Vivante GMP Solutions

Houston, Texas, United States

Vivante GMP Solutions, Inc. is a custom manufacturing organization dedicated to producing GMP viral-based therapeutics. Vivante provides its clients with flexible, disposable, scalable viral-based GMP production knowledge and capabilities to convert early-stage production into robust and scalable therapeutic products for clinical and commercial use.

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