M&A Deal Summary

The Blackstone Group Acquires CMIC

On March 3, 2025, private equity firm The Blackstone Group acquired life science company CMIC

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is The Blackstone Group’s 9th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is The Blackstone Group’s 4th transaction in Japan.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-03-03
Target CMIC
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) The Blackstone Group
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

CMIC

Minato-ku, Japan
CMIC is a contract research organization (CRO) that provides comprehensive end-to-end services across clinical trial phases and therapeutic areas. It partners with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to help develop medicines and bring them to the market faster and more efficiently. CMIC was founded in 1992 and is based in Minato-ku, Japan.

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Buyer

The Blackstone Group

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 394.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

The Blackstone Group is a global alternative investment management firm. The Firm's investment activities span real estate, secondary investments, hedge funds, credit, infrastructure, and private equity. Blackstone's private equity group targets opportunities globally including buyout acquisitions of established companies, development projects, growth equity financings, and industry consolidations. Sectors of interest include automotive, healthcare, chemicals, industrial, commercial property, lodging, communications, media/publishing, consumer & retail, packaging, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, energy, technology, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, theme parks, food & beverage, and transportation. Blackstone's private equity real estate group looks for opportunities across North/South America, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe. The real estate group will consider both equity and debt investments. Areas of interest include healthcare, hotel, industrial, office, residential, and retail. The Blackstone Group was formed in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 353 of 362
Sector: Life Science M&A 9 of 9
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 81 of 81
Country: Japan M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2025 M&A 7 of 16
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-03-03 First Eagle Investment Management

New York, New York, United States

First Eagle Investment Management is an asset management firm which manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual clients. With the core purpose of providing prudent stewardship of its clients’ assets, the Firm is focused on fundamental, flexible and benchmark-agnostic investing, including strategies which seek to provide clients with downside protection. First Eagle Investment Management was founded in 1864 and is based in New York, New York.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-03-12 Beacon

New York, New York, United States

Beacon is a cloud-based platform for quant development that enables users to build custom trading and risk management applications. The integrated development environment and a web application framework make developing applications faster and easier. Beacon was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

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