Mer­ck lines up a buy­out deal for soon-to-be wom­en's health spin­out

A year af­ter re­veal­ing plans to spin off its women’s health port­fo­lio, Mer­ck is lin­ing up a buy­out deal to get the new com­pa­ny start­ed.

Organon has struck an up to $240 mil­lion deal to ac­quire Aly­dia Health, a med­ical de­vice com­pa­ny work­ing on tech­nol­o­gy to con­trol and treat ab­nor­mal post­par­tum uter­ine bleed­ing or he­m­or­rhage. Aly­dia will pull in $215 mil­lion up­front, in­clud­ing $50 mil­lion be­fore the com­pa­ny is of­fi­cial­ly spun out. And it stands to pock­et up to $25 mil­lion in mile­stones.

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