Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Carlyle Bags Another CRO


The Carlyle Group and fellow PEU GTCR struck a $922 million deal to buy AMRI, Albany Molecular Research.  Carlyle's latest deal in the pharmacy research space comes after The Carlyle Group sold PPD to Carlyle for $9.05 billion.  Carlyle paid $3.6 billion to buy PPD six years ago.  How many clinical research organizations can a PEU own and how many times?

I'll peruse the SEC filing on the deal for specifics and post any findings.

Update 6-11-17:  Carlyle inked a deal to buy iNova Pharma, another pharmaceutical company that can send business to PPD and AMRI.