MERIT MEDICAL SIGNS PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH BD FOR DIVESTMENT ASSETSFor Immediate Release • November 16th, 2017 • Merit Medical Systems Inc • Surgical & medical instruments & apparatus
SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH— Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMSI), a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used in interventional, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, particularly in cardiology, radiology, oncology, critical care and endoscopy, announced today that it has signed an asset purchase agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) to acquire certain assets which BD proposes to sell in connection with its proposed acquisition of C.R. Bard, Inc. (Bard). Merit’s proposed asset acquisition is subject to the closing of BD’s proposed acquisition of Bard as well as other usual and customary closing conditions.
