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Carl Zeiss Meditec buys cataract surgery device maker IanTech
Carl Zeiss Meditec (ETR:AFX) said today it inked a deal to acquire micro-interventional cataract surgery tech dev IanTech for an undisclosed amount. Reno, Nev.-based IanTech designed and developed the miLOOP device intended for micro-interventional cataract surgery. The system uses thin, super-elastic, self-expanding nitinol filament technology and is intended to allow the user to achieve full thickness […]
Resonetics acquires STI Laser Industries
Resonetics (Nashua, N.H.) said today that it has purchased STI Laser Industries (Or Akiva, Israel), a medical device industry supplier of laser processing, nitinol shape setting and electropolishing, and cleanroom assembly and packaging. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1998 by its president and CEO Tovy Sivan, STI has a worldwide business, with […]
Stryker closes $190m Invuity buyout
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) said today that it closed the $190 million acquisition of Invuity (NSDQ:IVTY), adding the San Francisco-based company’s single-use surgical instruments and illumination devices to its portfolio. The $7.40-per-share deal represented a 28.7% premium over the $5.75 closing price for IVTY shares Sept. 10, the day before the deal was announced. “The combination of Stryker’s established leadership […]
K2M settles investor suits with updated financials on $1.4B Stryker merger
K2M (NSDQ:KTWO) yesterday managed to mollify investors who sued to block its $1.4 billion merger with Stryker (NYSE:SYK) by releasing more details on its financials. Investors leveled the suits in the U.S. District Court for Delaware earlier this month seeking to block the deal. The purported class-action suits argued that K2M and its management failed to disclose financial projections made by […]
Nordson snaps up Clada Medical
Nordson (NSDQ: NDSN) said it has acquired Clada Medical Devices, a Galway, Ireland-based design and development contract manufacturer primarily focused on balloons and balloon catheters. The purchase will expand Nordson’s (Westlake, Ohio) balloon and balloon catheter capabilities with broader design, development and manufacturing capabilities, Nordson said in a statement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Get […]
Stryker extends deadline on $1.4B K2M buy as shareholders sue
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) yesterday filed to extend the anti-trust deadline on its $1.4 billion acquisition of K2M (NSDQ:KTWO) to give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission more time to examine the deal, as shareholders filed suit to block the merger, K2M said today. The new FTC filing pushes the anti-monopoly waiting period out to Nov. 16, the Leesburg, Va.-based spinal […]
Getinge’s Atrium Medical deals biosurg biz to SeCQure Surgical parent
Getinge (PINK:GETI B) subsidiary Atrium Medical said today that it agreed to deal its biosurgery business to the parent company of SeCQure Surgical for an undisclosed amount. Göteborg, Sweden-based Getinge acquired the biosurgery unit, which makes soft tissue reinforcement devices, in the $680 million deal for Atrium back in 2011. Today Getinge said it agreed to sell the business, which […]
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