Showing posts with label Starboard. Show all posts
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Monday, April 18, 2011

To move along $344M Quest deal, Celera plans to settle 4 shareholder suits

Celera Corp. will settle four shareholder lawsuits filed after Quest Diagnostics Inc. said it would buy the Alameda medical test developer for $344 million.
Meanwhile, Celera and Quest (NYSE: DGX) agreed to lower the deal’s termination fee to $15.6 million from $23.45 million, and Quest said it will extend its $8 per share offer until 5 p.m. (Eastern time) on May 2.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Big Celera shareholders line up against Quest deal

Two Celera Corp. shareholders do not support the company’s planned $344 million acquisition by Quest Diagnostics Inc. and say the companies need to renegotiate the deal.
Starboard Value & Opportunity Fund and Biotechnology Value Fund LP said in separate letters to Alameda-based genetic test developer Celera (NASDAQ: CRA) and Quest (NYSE: DGX) that the $8 per share deal does not reflect Celera’s value.