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| Acquiring Party | Roche Holding AG, a leading healthcare provider of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. |
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| Transferring Party | Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VMSI), a leading supplier of automated diagnostic systems to the anatomical pathology market. |
| Sector | Diagnostics |
| Date | February 19, 2008 |
| Analysis This was a hostile tender offer, turned friendly by a sweetened bid. Ventana’s technology helps to determine which drugs are most appropriate for individual patients, an emerging area known as personalized medicine. Identifying individual patient responses to certain treatments can mean more cost-efficient and targeted drug treatments. Deal value - $3.4b, on revenues of $261.3m (13x) and EBITDA $67.9m (50x). | |
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