GE Healthcare Agrees To Buy Safeguard Scientifics Partner Company Clarient

General Electric Co.’s GE Healthcare plans to purchase all of Clarient Inc.’s common and preferred shares via a tender offer price at $5 per common share and $20 per preferred share. The proposal values Clarient at $587 million. The deal is expected to close in late 2010 or early next year. Clarient is a partner company of Wayne, Pa.-based Safeguard Scientifics, which expects net proceeds of about $145 million from the deal.

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