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Our weekly checkup takes the temperature of the public medical device companies in the three largest markets in the U.S.: Massachusetts, Minnesota and California. In addition to the indices for each state, which track the overall movement of the sector, we compare Monday morning’s opening share prices with their value when the markets close Friday afternoon and calculate the biggest gainers and losers. Read More more arrow

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Private: Thermo Fisher joins the re-fi boom

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is selling new senior notes and has begun a tender offer for two older series of notes as part of efforts to refinance nearly $600 million of the company’s pre-merger debt.

The Waltham, Mass.-based manufacturer of laboratory instruments and research software said Friday the new notes are being sold in a private placement to institutional buyers. Coinciding with the offering, the company announced it planned to redeem $300 million in 10-year notes coming due in 2014 as well as launching a tender offer to buy back senior convertible notes coming due in 2023 that it absorbed during the 2006 merger between Thermo Electron Corp. and Fisher Scientific International Inc.

Fisher issued $300 million in 20-year senior convertible notes in July 2003 with all but $4.6 million of the debt still outstanding. The annual yield on the notes is 2.5 percent, costing Thermo Fisher about $7.5 million a year although it is the convertible features of the notes that is far more problematic to the company.

Contingent on certain events, the notes have a conversion price at the holder’s option of $23.75 a share, or nearly half Thermo Fisher’s current stock price. As part of the merger agreement, Thermo Fisher was able to modify the conversion terms somewhat to its benefit but still remains potentially on the hook of having to pay noteholders the difference between the conversion and market prices in addition to repaying the original debt.

The tender offer is set to through Dec. 17 and will pay noteholders according to a formula based on an average of Thermo Fisher’s recent share price and the number of shares they would be entitled if they converted the notes into stock (currently 42.1372 shares per $1,000 in principal). Thermo Fisher also is offering to pay note-holders a $56.50 in cash for each $1,000 in notes they hold provided the formula results do not exceed certain limits.

Reuters, citing a companion news service, late Friday reported that Thermo Fisher successfully sold $350 million in new three-year notes and $400 million in five-year notes yielding 3.45 percent.

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