M&A Deal Summary

Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Ace Animals

On March 17, 2010, Sigma-Aldrich acquired life science company Ace Animals

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Sigma-Aldrich’s 7th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Sigma-Aldrich’s 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Sigma-Aldrich’s 1st transaction in Pennsylvania.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-03-17
Target Ace Animals
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Sigma-Aldrich
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Everingham & Kerr, Inc. (Financial)

Target

Ace Animals

Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States
Ace Animals, Inc. provides high quality research rodents and contract breeding services to the pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences and animal research industries.

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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 8 of 13
Sector (Life Science) 7 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 9
State (Pennsylvania) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 5 of 9
Year (2010) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-07 ChemNavigator

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

ChemNavigator, Inc. is a provider of drug discovery using proprietary proteomics and cheminformatics technologies, called 3-DPL™ Map and ChemMatrix™.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-12-30 Cerilliant

Round Rock, Texas, United States

Cerilliant Corporation is a chemicals company that uses organic synthesis for the production of analytical reference standards used in medical, forensic, environmental, pharmaceutical and other test laboratories. Cerilliant has developed a worldwide reputation as a leading provider of analytical reference standards.

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