Deals
Thermo Fisher Scientific to Buy FEI for About $4.2 Billion
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will buy FEI Co. for about $4.2 billion, gaining imaging technology for the life sciences and materials science industries.
The boards of the two companies unanimously approved the deal, in which Thermo Fisher will pay $107.50 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement Friday. That represents a 14 percent premium to FEI’s closing share price of $94.58 on Thursday.