Announced
Financials
Tags
Acquisition
Japan
Cross Border
Medical Equipment
scientific solutions
life sciences
Pending
Private
Private Equity
Friendly
Majority
Single Bidder
microscopes
Synopsis
Bain Capital, an American private investment firm based in Boston, agreed to acquire Evident, the microscope unit of Olympus, a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products, for $3.1bn. The sale is a part of Olympus Chief Executive Officer Yasuo Takeuchi’s plan to pivot the company in the direction of health-care, with the goal of becoming the world’s leading maker of endoscopes.
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