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| Acquiring Party | Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (AMEX: IMA) (AMEX: IMA), a provider of diagnostic products for women’s health and chronic disease self-management. |
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| Transferring Party | Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, a distributor of (and toxicology lab for) drugs of abuse diagnostic tests. |
| Sector | Diagnostics |
| Date | December 21, 2007 |
| Analysis A portfolio company of American Capital Strategies Limited, Redwood is Inverness' largest single distributor of drugs of abuse testing products. The deal helps grow the FirstCheck home drug testing business acquired earlier in 08. Deal value -- $99m on sales of $44m (2.2x). | |
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