Hap­py alone Qi­a­gen changes course af­ter Ther­mo Fish­er of­fers to buy it in $11.5B deal

Dutch di­ag­nos­tics com­pa­ny Qi­a­gen — which is de­vel­op­ing tests for the on­go­ing coro­n­avirus epi­dem­ic — is be­ing ac­quired by US-based sci­en­tif­ic in­stru­ments mak­er Ther­mo Fish­er Sci­en­tif­ic in a deal val­ued at $11.5 bil­lion, in­clud­ing debt.

The an­nounce­ment comes months af­ter the Nether­lands-based com­pa­ny, which is list­ed on the NYSE, no­ti­fied in­vestors that it was re­view­ing po­ten­tial strate­gic al­ter­na­tives af­ter it re­ceived sev­er­al “in­di­ca­tions of in­ter­est” for an ac­qui­si­tion. But by De­cem­ber, it con­clud­ed it would pre­fer to go it alone.

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