Minute Insight: FTC Pressure Kills Cooper’s Planned Deal For Cook’s Reproductive Assets
Cooper announced a plan to buy Cook’s reproductive health business in February. The deal would have been worth $675m up front and $200m in four annual installments. The US FTC determined the deal would have impaired competition in the reproductive health market.
The Cooper Companies (Cooper) are abandoning a planned $875m acquisition of Cook Medical’s reproductive health business after US antitrust regulators determined the deal would be anticompetitive.
In February 2022, Cook signed a letter of intent to sell its reproductive health business to Cooper for about $675m...