Thermo Fisher offers $3.6 billion in notes
Thermo Fisher Scientific plans to offer $3.6 billion in senior notes to fund $3.5 billion Phadia acquisition.
WALTHAM, Mass. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Dionex Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of chromatography systems, today announced that their Boards of Directors have unanimously approved a transaction under which Thermo Fisher will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Dionex for $118.50 per share in cash, or a total purchase price of approximately $2.1 billion.