MedTech Dive July 23, 2024
Nick Paul Taylor

Astorg intends to combine the Cook assets with Hamilton Thorne, another reproductive health business it plans to buy.

Dive Brief:

  • Cook Medical has signed a letter of intent to sell its reproductive health business to the private equity firm Astorg, the medtech company said Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  • CooperCompanies previously tried to buy the business for $875 million, but scrapped the deal because of antitrust issues. Instead, Cooper only bought some of Cook’s obstetrics, doppler monitoring and gynecology surgery devices for $300 million.
  • Astorg entered into a separate agreement to buy reproductive technology company Hamilton Thorne for about 388 million Canadian dollars ($282 million). The private equity group plans to combine Hamilton Thorne with...

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