Myriad Genetics Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell Myriad Autoimmune’s Vectra Testing Business to Labcorp
Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ: MYGN) has finalized a $150 million cash deal to sell select assets and intellectual property, including the Vectra® test, to Labcorp. The transaction aims to enhance patient access to the Vectra test while allowing Myriad to focus on core areas like Women's Health, Oncology, and Mental Health. The Vectra test has been vital for over one million patients in assessing rheumatoid arthritis. Pending regulatory approval, the sale is expected to close by Q3 2021, with Guggenheim Securities as financial advisor.
- Sale of Vectra test to Labcorp for $150 million.
- Increased operational focus on Women's Health, Oncology, and Mental Health.
- Dependence on regulatory clearance for transaction closure.
- Potential risks and uncertainties surrounding the divestiture process.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in genetic testing and precision medicine, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell select operating assets and intellectual property (IP), including the Vectra® test, from Myriad Autoimmune’s business unit to Labcorp (NYSE: LH) for
“Our agreement with Labcorp meets our goals of ensuring broad access to the Vectra® test for patients, ensuring a good home for our teammates, and delivering strong value for our shareholders,” said Paul J. Diaz, president and CEO of Myriad Genetics. “While we are strong believers in the future growth prospects for Vectra, this divestiture will allow us to increase operational focus and better execute in our core strategic businesses of Women’s Health, Oncology, and Mental Health.”
The Vectra test has been used by over one million patients to help better understand their rheumatoid arthritis disease activity and has been ordered by the majority of rheumatologists in the country.
The deal is subject to regulatory clearance and customary closing conditions, and Myriad expects the transaction to close by the end of the third quarter.
Guggenheim Securities, LLC is acting as exclusive financial advisor and Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is acting as legal advisor to Myriad Genetics.
About Myriad Genetics
Myriad Genetics Inc., is a leading genetic testing and precision medicine company dedicated to advancing health and wellbeing for all, empowering individuals with vital genetic insights and enabling healthcare providers to better detect, treat and prevent disease. Myriad discovers and commercializes genetic tests that: determine the risk of developing disease, accurately diagnose disease, assess the risk of disease progression, and guide treatment decisions across medical specialties where genetic testing can significantly improve patient care and lower healthcare costs. For more information on how Myriad fulfills its purpose, please visit the Company's website: www.myriad.com.
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Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to the divestiture of select operating assets and intellectual property, including the Vectra® test, from Myriad Autoimmune’s business unit to Labcorp and the expected closing of the transaction by the end of third quarter; and the Company’s strategic directives under the caption "About Myriad Genetics." These "forward-looking statements" are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risk that a condition to closing of the proposed transaction may not be satisfied; that either party may terminate the definitive agreement or that the closing of the proposed transaction may be delayed or not occur at all; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the announcement or consummation of the proposed transaction; diversion of management and employee time on transaction-related issues and completing the transaction; uncertainties associated with COVID-19, including its possible effects on our operations and the demand for our products and services; risks related to our ability to efficiently and flexibly manage our business amid uncertainties associated with COVID-19; the risk that sales and profit margins of our existing molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services may decline or that we may not be able to operate our business on a profitable basis; risks related to our ability to generate sufficient revenue from our existing product portfolio or in launching and commercializing new tests; risks related to changes in governmental or private insurers’ coverage and reimbursement levels for our tests or our ability to obtain reimbursement for our new tests at comparable levels to our existing tests; risks related to increased competition and the development of new competing tests and services; the risk that we may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that we may not successfully develop new markets for our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services, including our ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services tests and any future tests are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with operating our laboratory testing facilities; risks related to public concern over genetic testing in general or our tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of the healthcare system or healthcare payment systems; risks related to our ability to obtain new corporate collaborations or licenses and acquire new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that we license or acquire; risks related to our projections about the potential market opportunity for our products; the risk that we or our licensors may be unable to protect or that third parties will infringe the proprietary technologies underlying our tests; the risk of patent-infringement claims or challenges to the validity of our patents; risks related to changes in intellectual property laws covering our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services, or patents or enforcement, in the United States and foreign countries; risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; the risk that we may be unable to comply with financial operating covenants under our credit or lending agreements; the risk that we will be unable to pay, when due, amounts due under our credit or lending agreements; and risks related to the material weakness identified in our internal control over financial reporting, including the impact thereof and our remediation plan; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Item 1A of our Transition Report on Form 10-K for the six month transition period ended December 31, 2020, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2021, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and Myriad undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
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