PerkinElmer Completes Acquisition of Antibody and Reagent Leader BioLegend
September 17 2021 - 4:43PM
Business Wire
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) a global leader committed to
innovating for a healthier world, today announced it has completed
its acquisition of BioLegend, a leading, worldwide provider of life
science antibodies and reagents for a total consideration of
approximately $5.25 billion.
The acquisition, the largest in PerkinElmer’s history, further
expands the Company’s life science franchise into high-growth areas
such as cytometry, proteogenomics, multiplex assays, recombinant
proteins, magnetic cell separation and bioprocessing.
Commenting on the collaboration ahead, Prahlad Singh, president
and chief executive officer of PerkinElmer, said “BioLegend’s
stellar leaders, teams and technologies will play a critical role
in our combined companies’ ability to provide new, innovative
solutions to scientists -- helping drive novel therapeutic
discovery and development. We also look forward to BioLegend
significantly enhancing our leading reagents portfolio as we
partner together to innovate and advance science for our
customers.”
Gene Lay, founder, president and chief executive officer of
BioLegend, added “We are very excited to roll up our sleeves and
work together with our new PerkinElmer colleagues to mutually
leverage our portfolios, people and shared passion for innovation
and science to accelerate the discovery and development of novel
therapeutics. PerkinElmer’s broad life science platform and strong
global infrastructure will help BioLegend continue to extend our
mission of enabling our customers to do legendary discovery.”
Additional Details
As previously communicated, it is expected that BioLegend will
contribute an incremental $380 million of revenue and $0.30 of
adjusted earnings per share accretion to PerkinElmer in fiscal year
2022. Additional commentary regarding its expected financial
contribution to the remainder of the current fiscal year will be
provided on the Company’s upcoming third quarter 2021 earnings
call.
PerkinElmer’s expectations for incremental adjusted earnings per
share accretion for fiscal year 2022 attributable to BioLegend is
provided on a non-GAAP basis and cannot be reconciled to the
closest GAAP measure without unreasonable effort due to the
unpredictability of the amounts and timing of events affecting the
items PerkinElmer excludes from this non-GAAP measure. The timing
and amounts of such events and items could be material to
PerkinElmer’s results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
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estimates and projections of future earnings per share, cash flow
and revenue growth and other financial results, developments
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correct. A number of important risk factors could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results described, implied or
projected in any forward-looking statements. These factors include,
without limitation: (1) markets into which we sell our products
declining or not growing as anticipated; (2) the effect of the
COVID-19 pandemic on our sales and operations; (3) fluctuations in
the global economic and political environments; (4) our failure to
introduce new products in a timely manner; (5) our ability to
execute acquisitions and license technologies, or to successfully
integrate acquired businesses, such as BioLegend, and licensed
technologies into our existing business or to make them profitable,
or successfully divest businesses; (6) our ability to compete
effectively; (7) fluctuation in our quarterly operating results and
our ability to adjust our operations to address unexpected changes;
(8) significant disruption in third-party package delivery and
import/export services or significant increases in prices for those
services; (9) disruptions in the supply of raw materials and
supplies; (10) our ability to retain key personnel; (11)
significant disruption in our information technology systems, or
cybercrime; (12) our ability to realize the full value of our
intangible assets; (13) our failure to adequately protect our
intellectual property; (14) the loss of any of our licenses or
licensed rights; (15) the manufacture and sale of products exposing
us to product liability claims; (16) our failure to maintain
compliance with applicable government regulations; (17) regulatory
changes; (18) our failure to comply with healthcare industry
regulations; (19) economic, political and other risks associated
with foreign operations; (20) the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from
the European Union; (21) our ability to obtain future financing;
(22) restrictions in our credit agreements; (23) discontinuation or
replacement of LIBOR; (24) significant fluctuations in our stock
price; (25) reduction or elimination of dividends on our common
stock; and (26) other factors which we describe under the caption
"Risk Factors" in our most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and
in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We disclaim any intention or obligation to update any
forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring
after the date of this press release.
About PerkinElmer
PerkinElmer enables scientists, researchers, and clinicians to
address their most critical challenges across science and
healthcare. With a mission focused on innovating for a healthier
world, we deliver unique solutions to serve the diagnostics, life
science, food, and applied markets. We strategically partner with
customers to enable earlier and more accurate insights supported by
deep market knowledge and technical expertise. Our dedicated team
of about 15,000 employees worldwide is passionate about helping
customers work to create healthier families, improve the quality of
life, and sustain the well-being and longevity of people globally.
The Company reported revenue of approximately $3.8 billion in 2020,
serves customers in 190 countries, and is a component of the
S&P 500 index. Additional information is available through
1-877-PKI-NYSE, or at www.perkinelmer.com.
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