New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over $37 billion in assets under management, is to acquire PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses, a carve-out from the Discovery & Analytical Solutions segment of PerkinElmer, Inc (NYSE: PKI), for up to $2.45 billion.
The business being acquired includes PerkinElmer’s leading OneSource laboratory and field services, along with a portfolio of atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography instruments, consumables and reagents that serve the biopharma, food, environmental & safety and applied end markets. The PerkinElmer brand will be transferred with the business, and the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
New Mountain Capital was advised by Jefferies as exclusive financial advisor and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as lead legal counsel. Owl Rock Capital, a division of Blue Owl, served as administrative agent and joint lead arranger for the credit facilities. Goldman Sachs & Co is serving as exclusive financial advisor to PerkinElmer, with WilmerHale, McDermott Will & Emery, and Hogan Lovells serving as legal counsel to the Company.
