Beckman Coulter News
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A takeover of Life Technologies Corp. at one of the lowest multiples on record would still be better for shareholders than no deal at all.
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Danaher Corp. climbed to the highest price since 1980 after agreeing to pay $6.8 billion for diagnostic-equipment maker Beckman Coulter Inc. amid higher demand for medical tests from an aging U.S. population.
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Beckman Coulter Inc. , the maker of laboratory equipment for science research, said Chief Executive Officer Scott Garrett resigned and the company is searching for a successor.
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The estate of investment adviser Stanley Chais must face claims by the trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC that Chais and related entities fraudulently received more than $1 billion as “insiders” of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
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U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average up for a sixth straight day, as takeover announcements bolstered investors’ optimism.
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If Danaher Corp.’s $7 billion deal for Beckman Coulter Inc. at a price that would have had the leveraged buyout crowd salivating four years ago reveals anything, it’s that private equity firms haven’t recovered from a takeover spree that still has investors waiting for returns.
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KKR & Co. dropped out of a bidding group for lab-equipment maker Beckman Coulter Inc. , leaving TPG Capital and Blackstone Group LP to come up with extra funding or find another investor, said three people with knowledge of the matter.
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Danaher Corp., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and several private-equity firms are among those considering offers for laboratory-equipment maker Beckman Coulter Inc. , three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Kinder Morgan Inc. is showing that big isn’t always bad in the world of leveraged buyouts.
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