Synthes CEO Michel Orsinger
Synthes CEO Michel Orsinger will land a $52 million payout to give up the corner office as part of the Swiss orthopedic device maker’s $21.3 billion buyout by med-tech titan Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ).
The deal, slated to close in early 2012, includes a $51.9 million payout to Orsinger for leaving Synthes and a multimillion-dollar stock package for his new position with Johnson & Johnson.
Orsinger will head J&J’s new global orthopedics group after the integration of Synthes into the DePuy division, according to a regulatory filing. His annual salary is set at $700,000, which is a pay cut, but includes a $17.2 million stock package after three years.
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The $21.3 billion union of Synthes and Johnson & Johnson closed in April to little fanfare on Wall Street and in Switzerland. Since then, three former Synthes executives have received prison sentences for their roles in the unauthorized human trials of an experimental bone cement that left three patients dead (Orsinger was not implicated in the case and oversaw the guilty plea that ended a U.S. Dept. of Justice lawsuit).
That deal also called for Synthes to ditch its Norian subsidiary. Exton, Pa.-based Kensey Nash Corp. (NSDQ:KNSY) later stepped up to the plate and agreed to take a swing at the entire Norian product line for $22 million in cash. As part of a long-term supply agreement, Kensey Nash will manufacture the Norian products, and Synthes will exclusively distribute the products worldwide.
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