CryoLife Inc. (NYSE:CRY) said yesterday that it closed its play for the mechanical heart valve space, the $130 million acquisition of On-X Life Technologies.
On-X makes an aortic valve replacement and is developing a mitral chord repair device called Chord-X. The Austin, Texas-based company put up sales of about $33 million last year.
The deal called for Atlanta-based CryoLife to pay roughly $91 million in cash from a new credit facility and another $39 million worth of CRY shares. When the deal was announced last month, CryoLife said it had already lined up a 5-year, $75 million term loan and a $20 million revolver from Capital One, Fifth Third Bank and Citizens Bank.
“We believe this will be a transformative acquisition for CryoLife that will significantly enhance the size of our addressable market and growth potential. This transaction will provide CryoLife access to the $220 million mechanical valve market with a highly advanced portfolio of products,” chairman, president & CEO Pat Mackin said at the time. “On-X valves have been implanted in over 200,000 patients, and On-X has achieved a 13% revenue CAGR over the past 4 years with modest sales and marketing support.”
Mackin said the deal more than doubles CryoLife’s U.S. cardiac surgery sales force and forecast a double-digit compound growth rate from 2016 to 2020. CryoLife’s tissue valve business is complemented by the mechanical valve business it’s buying with On-X, he said.
