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CMS Advises Bruker on Acquisition of Austria’s Biocrates Life Sciences

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CMS has advised Bruker Corporation on its acquisition of Biocrates Life Sciences.

Biocrates Life Sciences is an Austrian company operating in mass spectrometry-based quantitative metabolomics. According to CMS, through this acquisition, Bruker is set to strengthen its MS-based metabolomics solutions and expand its portfolio of multiomics instruments, reagents, software, and research services. 

The CMS team included Austria-based Partners Alexander Rakosi, Sibylle Novak, Mariella Kapoun-Reiter, Hans Lederer, Gabriela Staber, Jens Winter, and Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger, Lawyers Marie-Christine Lidl, Anna Hiegelsperger, Thomas Aspalter, and Andreas Lichtenberger, Associates Yara Al-Harbi, Clemens Macho, Konstantin Kladivko, Lukas Kment, Clara Puczynski, Caroline Pavitsits, and Alexander Sommergruber, and Legal Trainee Ferdinand Sima as well as further team members in Germany.

CMS did not respond to our inquiry on the matter.

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