ICU Medical Outbids Private Equity Firm To Acquire Smiths Medical
Executive Summary
ICU Medical will pay about $500m in stock, $1.85bn in cash, and assume certain liabilities to acquire the medical division of Smiths Group. Smiths is also eligible for $100m in milestone payments from ICU Medical. The deal is better than the $2.3bn offer Smiths got from a subsidiary of private equity firm TA Associates earlier in August.
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