Four Firms Advise in New Mountain’s Buy of PerkinElmer Units

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett served as lead counsel to New York-based New Mountain Capital for its agreement to acquire PerkinElmer, Inc.’s applied, food, and enterprise services businesses for up to $2.45 billion.

WilmerHale is serving as lead counsel to PerkinElmer, with McDermott Will & Emery and Hogan Lovells as additional counsel, on the deal, in which the Waltham, Massachusetts-based testing and diagnostics company is also selling its brand.

The businesses that New Mountain is acquiring include PerkinElmer’s OneSource laboratory and field services, along with a portfolio of atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography instruments, consumables and reagents that serve the ...